Re: 1.2 boot floppy

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
> dpkg-ftp is a really important package, in my opinion.  Its installed
> size is only 39k.  Surely 39k can be scrapped together somewhere?

I will make sure it works in the CD and DOS hard disk install.

Dpkg-ftp is useless without networking, and that would
not fit on the floppies either. I think the best solution is to put
together a document on what packages (perl, netbase, netstd, dpkg-ftp)
you need to install in order to have dpkg-ftp work.

For 1.3, we might try working on a base system that doesn't need perl.
This would mean a rewrite of dpkg-ftp (to what? C, C++, or shell?)
and a few postinst scripts. Then we'd be able to fit the entire base
system on 3 floppies with no half-packages.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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