nadir wrote:New situation, so here are ideas i would not have proposed earlier:
a) rescue tools, as much as possible (for example):
cryptsetup, testdisk, ophcrack, zenmap, gftp, sshfs, you got the idea.
Here are some of the packages I included in my last build. I started splitting them up into packagelist files instead of having a huge string of individual packages on the 'lb config' line. I thought they might be easier to manage that way, plus, I wanted to try building with packagelist files.
Let me know if there's something you think should be added or removed. I see you listed ophcrack, and I think that's the only one I didn't include. (gftp is on another list - these are just command-line tools)
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# config/chroot_local-packageslists/fs_extras.list
lvm2 cryptsetup
sshfs fuse-utils ntfs-3g smbfs
squashfs-tools
dosfstools ntfsprogs
pmount
bzip2
# config/chroot_local-packageslists/hw_tools.list
lshw
hwinfo
smartmontools
lm-sensors
hddtemp
hdparm
sdparm
read-edid
hardinfo
testdisk
gdmap
fdupes
# config/chroot_local-packageslists/net_tools.list
openssh-server
whois
w3m
irssi
iftop
iptraf
zenmap
ethtool
wicd
pppoeconf
(note: Some of those might not be necessary in the gnome version - I've been building with xfce4.)
b) at minimum one small window-manager. I got the configs of icewm of an old refracta version.
We could use that one (trying to catch the spirit of Dean).
At some point (not yet) I'll ask you to send me the desktop config files for that. It's been awhile, but I recall that it's pretty easy to edit the configs for icewm.
c) geany and audacious
same reason like b.
And because they're good apps. Would you mind if I changed the geany icon to something else?
d) see above
e) where there is editing, there is vim.
OK, but we need to talk. I'm a little confused on the different versions of vim and how the symlinks get arranged in debian.
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PS: in case not clear:
My idea is to keep the actual refracta version: 6.0.3
At the same time create a new version, which is less for AuntMartha, and more for us (aunt marthas nephews, so to speak).
Are you opposed to having xfce4 instead of gnome in the geek nephew version? Or are you thinking of icewm for the main desktop? (I think both would fit - the uncompressed size is less than 2mb.)