Ghee Teo wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Ghee Teo wrote: >>> What's is the process to get those dropped packages onto the machine >>> if they are not on the live CD? >>> That is what does the user needs to do to get these dropped packages. >> >> Assuming they have an active network connection? > Okay. >> >> pkg install foo > That's on the assumption that the user knows what is the name of the > packages to install, > some of the names from the list of packages that Erwann listed weren't > easy to remember > is even more difficult is to know what to install to make which part of > the system to work.
...which is why the gui and cli for pkg(5) provide search functionality that should make it easy to find the package(s) to install. > So the *default installed system* from the Live CD should be reasoanbly > complete > After all, when the user has invested the disk and time to install a > system, he expects more > than the liveCD. Like for example, I would expect burning CD > functionality to work > after installing the live CD, or camera or image organizer without > having to work out > what other packages I need to down load. I agree it should be reasonably complete, however, as others pointed out -- that has to be balanced against space constraints. -- Shawn Walker
