Desktop / Server stage tarballs?

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01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:49 pm

Just recently I reinstalled my system from a 2007.0 CD and forgot to link /etc/make.profile to the desktop profile, which meant lots of reinstalling with correct USE flags necessary for me - that was when I thought: Why doesn't Gentoo have an own desktop stage tarball?

A desktop stage could have some default software in it, like an X server, multimedia libraries, hal/dbus, gtk+/qt, ALSA, maybe even Firefox - thinking about the lots of people using alternative WMs including KDE/GNOME may not be a wise choice, because many people simply don't need it.

The same could go for a server stage: Including samba, apache2, php etc. would make the creation of a server much easier.

What do you think about this?

P.S.: If a dev sees this, I would like to say that I could work out a more detailed concept of this and maybe realize it when just being given some guidance with stuff like Catalyst. Also, would #gentoo-dev be a good place for discussing this?

Old School · Post by **Old School** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:55 pm

The problem with that is, it is out of date a week after its offered. The first 'emerge -uDN world' would take just as long as the existing method, not to mention little nasties like expat.

96140 · Post by **96140** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:43 pm

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:10 pm

Okay, thanks for your answers. I have completely forgotten about the LiveCD, now if that one would only be updated more often to solve the problem old school did mention ...

But well, 2008.0 should come sooner or later ...