Shawn Walker wrote: > 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.
I'd just thought I'd add that I can certainly understand (looking at the list) why you'd be concerned about the packages in question being removed. compiz and others are all great things to show off on a LiveCD and don't look like good candidates to cut. Some applets are important on the Livce CD (such as power monitoring) and the gnome power is definitely needed for laptop usage. If this path were really going to be pursued, there would need to be a special group-package setup in the ips repository with a name like "gnome-essentials" that would make it easy install all of this on the new system. I'd be hesitant to cut most of these packages... -- Shawn Walker
