On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:22:56PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > and Knoppix is a _live_cd_. On a live cd you don't run apt-get update > > (maybe sometime with a layeredfs/mergefs/...) and if you change > > something, after the next boot you don't see any changes. > > I know that these packages might be completely inoffensive _for_ knoppix. > But that does not mean we cannot take them "as is" and provide them in > Debian too. Some might need to be changed from automatic configuration into > scripted configuration in order to not violate policy. > > I.e. I don't want to donwload any *config package from knoppix and have it > change my system through postinst. There might or might not be packages > that do this at http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/ > I certainly have not had time to review them (at all). And this is also > something that should be done. > > > Maybe we should change the policy and some parts about live cd systems. > > Don't expect that to be done just for the sake of making live cds. We make somthing like this for the debian-installer. This udebs don't follow policy (don't have docs, man pages, etc.) too. But this is all a other problem. We should review the things from all the projects, collect this all, make reviews and start something. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "It's a modern Unix! It's stable, superior, enriching! It's gonna get creamed." -- Richard Brandt, Upside
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