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Topic: Moving Forward - What's Your Desire?, Please Vote

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roberts

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Posted: April 20 2007,17:03

I already have the separation of the modules via the mydsl directory and autoloading during boot, e.g. mydsl/modules

Copy a module(s) into this subdirectory off of the mydsl directory and your modules seamless load. Works just like mydsl extensions.

I had tried to remove the least often used modules, scsi and netfilter, during the last RC cycle, only to have complaints. I believe DSL is the only small distro to carry so many modules in core. I could easily remove > 2MB without affecting the majority of users.

Edited by roberts on April 20 2007,17:19

roberts

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Posted: April 20 2007,17:18

As for the question of Debain Woody and staying compatible, someone mentioned just to compile new(er) applications. That Debian compatibiity is no longer that important. But I must say to only look at DSL-N which was released without Debian compatibilty and that turned into a major gripe!

Personally, I don't think Debian compatibilty is necessary in a tiny distribution. Especially one that strives to be nomadic and thereby carry the least amount of code,docs, etc.

DSL has never really been Debian compatible as one cannot do an apt-get upgrade without breaking DSL's X server.

I have always maintained that Debian's packages are not fine grained enough for me. When I ask for one package and many other packages need to be loaded when that is not necessarily the case, nor my desire. I understand that expediency most often reduces choice. Whereas DSL thrives on choice. Perhaps some would say too many choices.

WDef

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Posted: April 20 2007,21:28

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When I ask for one package and many other packages need to be loaded when that is not necessarily the case, nor my desire.

I think the Red Hat world is worse in that area. You want to install one thing and find there are a million dep rpms that download first (if you can find them - some fedora deps for some apps are scattered across repos). Debian package management is simpler, easier and better organized. And Yum sucks bigtime.

hrwusesdsl Offline

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Posted: May 05 2007,04:23

Robert, the view you obtain from the forum is very warped. People who take the time, and have the nerve, to post, are far more computer savvy than the real public. I will bet money there is a large "silent majority" out there who will not vote here. What that silent majority needs is friendly, friendly, friendly.

And Internet.

Forget Debian compatibility. Forget most Linux experts. Go for the masses. That is your greatest service.