IRC for gentoo installs!

kraylus · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 648 Location: ft.worth.tx

as stated in #gentoo i was thinking that it'd be a good idea to run a simple irc app on a separate console so that people who were stuck could c&p certain things and get help on the fly!

OR, as someone else stated (which has its pros and cons) a user could just telnet into another server that has an irc app and do it that way. however, a) they'd need to have a shell account on another server b) that server would need to allow IRC connections (most don't).

i'd do it if i had the spare box but i dont at the moment. maybe in the next coupla weeks....

iunno, anyone have any comments suggestions?
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kraylus · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 648 Location: ft.worth.tx

if it were at all possible, the smallest irc clients i could find:

http://www.blackened.com/blackened/

weighs in at 694kb (source) and a binary weighs in at 379kb. [tar'ed and gzipped, btw]

but it gets better!

http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/

source weighs in at 524 (tar'ed and gzipped) i don't have a binary available and i was too lazy to make one

dunno if these would be small enough to include

maybe smaller binaries (less features or something) could be made?

if this idea is totally wack then i'll stop looking.

ryan
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trapni · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:00 am Post subject:

Well, irssi is also mostly as small as your suggestion. It's 873kb on my machine. However. The question about which client to use is really really very personal. I'd prefer irssi, it's small, fast, handy and easy to use.

p.s.: and, of course, colourfull

pps: you may emerge it directly after perl.

proxy · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 1:06 am Post subject:

well i have a feeling this will be viewed as "un-needed". Simply because you can easily ssh to another box and use irc from that one. Even nicer is to do what I do and have a screen running on a box all the time (preserving my nick) and i just ssh into that box and get the screen back whenever i want to use it

proxy

kraylus · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 648 Location: ft.worth.tx

perhaps but not everyone has an extra box lying around with irc on it.

when i went searching for irc clients i wasnt looking for something personal. i was looking for something small and simple as that would be what the gentoo team would want.
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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 3:04 am Post subject:

It could be scripted so they can type "help_i_broke_something_and_need_live_support" (or something a bit more terse

) and an IRC client would pop up and go to the #gentoo channel, perhaps responding to triggers to dump common files like /etc/fstab or whatever. Fun.

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