[Voyage-linux] 0.8.0: pppd still missing, other utils

[Teco Boot]

Op 16 sep 2011, om 17:08 heeft Adrian Reyer het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:49:18PM +0200, Teco Boot wrote:
>> I also load the following packages, even on "clean" maintenance partition:
>>  bzip2
>>  psmisc
>>  usbutils
>>  libdaemon0
> 

> I don't care about these.
The problem is my install & maintenance scripts need these tools.
bzip2 is a no-brainer. How to load a tar.bz2 voyage image with default voyage?

>>  ifplugd
> 
> I certainly don't want to have that ona  default install box.
> A ifplugd replacement that keeps dhcpclient doing its job would be OK.
Do you use dhcp? How?

BTW, libdaemon0 is needed by ifplugd.

>> I think many of us would benefit when having these on Voyage distribution.
> 
> I love minimal systems and have no problem in pasting in a default
> apt-get to add more packages.
Sure. I add about 40 packages after installation.

> I do that anyway for e.g. openvpn. This is
> way less hassle than removing packages afterwards as you have to make
> sure to purge the config files as well.
You could start from scratch :-)

The nice thing about Voyage is that it a more or less complete Debian, 
with updates so it can run on embedded systems. If you want something
small, why not pick a tiny distribution, like OpenWRT?

But yes, it is always a trade-off.

Teco

> 
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> 	Adrian
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