[Voyage-linux] loadkeys

[Gustin Johnson]

It is not strange if if the storage is soldered directly to the the
board.   It sounds like you have never played with embedded devices
where kilobytes still matter.

Look there are two very different perspectives here.  I have to agree
with Adrian, less is better.  10 MB may not seem like much to you, but
to me an increase of 10 MB of code is 10 more MB that I have
patch/update and audit, on every system.  Some of my systems are in
very remote areas with low bandwidth (sometimes sporadic access to the
internet).

Another solution (beyond splitting voyage into yet another variant)
would be to create a virtual package.  Ubuntu does this with gnome and
kde, allowing you install everything that you might need for that
given environment.  Say "apt-get install voyage-gnome-desktop" or
something similar.

I personally don't get why you would want to use voyage for a desktop
system, there are so many awesome distros aimed at this market.  Where
voyage really shines for me is how well it scales down, while still
preserving a functional Debian system.  The added drivers for the Alix
and Soekris specific hardware (like the LEDs) are also nice, but not a
deal breaker.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Rainer Stratmann
<RainerStratmann at t-online.de> wrote:
> Am Tuesday 27 September 2011 17:30:55 schrieben Sie:
>> If we accepted every single package that everyone requested, we might
>> as well install a full version of debian.
> Not every single package. A basic package!
> From a full-fledged debian it is far away.
> Otherwise someone can choose a different linux distro which is more
> userfriendly than voyage. I mainly choose voyage because of the read only
> filesystem.
>> That's not the point of
>> Voyage Linux.  In fact, Voyage is Too Big for one of my systems: 16 MB
>> flash disk, not expandable.
> That sounds really strange in these days. Like from the stone-age.
> "Not expandable" is not really a serious statement in my opinion.
> You have to search before you see a flash disk with MB instead of GB.
> Rather you look at any reason to supress the development for a userfriendly
> distribution.
>
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