[haiku-development] Re: Haiku Alpha Proposals & Decision
- From: "Grzegorz Dąbrowski" <grzegorz.dabrowski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:39:35 +0200
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Fredrik Holmqvist
<fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/8/13 Nick V <tonestone57@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Nothing extra should be included in Haiku image. I will explain. If you
>> start adding Firefox, GCC, Perl, box, etc., then the image size will grow (
>> maybe another 23+ MB ) and not everyone wants to use the same set of
>> software. Wastes bandwidth if done this way.
>>
>> The better way is to use a package manager to let users download ( & install
>> ) the extra software packages they want.
>
> IMO that would only work if we had lots of network drivers and wlan
> support, or the package manager supports installing from disc so that
> a packages disk could be released.
The box package manager download packages using curl, so http and file
protocols are supported.
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Grzegorz Dąbrowski
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