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You're right. I cannot profess to know. My judgement is based solely upon the contents of the -current tree, which just keeps getting better.
Patrick makes sane and considered decisions, as we saw with PAM... when it was finally implemented, it was done in a way that most people didn't even notice.
I still have a bluray player, and I plan to upgrade to a 4k player. And yes I also have a bluray burner in my pc - too bad I still can't get bluray playback to work though, maybe in another 10 years it might be possible
A more efficient installer - less redundant options
I still would like to request a clean-up of the installer, removal of the Menu option during install since you already have Expert - and also changing the output of Expert to a terse output.
I still would like to request a clean-up of the installer, removal of the Menu option during install since you already have Expert - and also changing the output of Expert to a terse output.
I still would like to request a clean-up of the installer, removal of the Menu option during install since you already have Expert - and also changing the output of Expert to a terse output.
If you write it, he _might_ come (to like it).
Fine, but I already poked around in the /source folder and I didn't really find exactly where the code in question is, even if I did I don't even have the skills to make such modifications.
Fine, but I already poked around in the /source folder and I didn't really find exactly where the code in question is, even if I did I don't even have the skills to make such modifications.
I still would like to request a clean-up of the installer, removal of the Menu option during install since you already have Expert - and also changing the output of Expert to a terse output.
And those of us who completely ignore everything and just memory smash buttons during the install will end up with a broken system and confused! ;-)
I still would like to request a clean-up of the installer, removal of the Menu option during install since you already have Expert - and also changing the output of Expert to a terse output.
Agreed.
The installer does not work well on machines with more than a few disks. This particularly problematic on storage servers.
Surely it can use lsblk instead of doing all the work itself.
I think we have a very minimal PAM. I know many projects/packages still have a "--with-pam" or similar compile flag that has to be enabled to use PAM specifically to make it less of an octopus.
I kkow Slackware does have a lot of stuff that doesn't use PAM that could, but that's always been at PV's discretion to enable or disable PAM usage. Honestly, it's one of those necessary evil packages for good security practices, but TBH, it's also one of those "you forget about it more over time" packagees also.
I think we have a very minimal PAM. I know many projects/packages still have a "--with-pam" or similar compile flag that has to be enabled to use PAM specifically to make it less of an octopus.
Most (if not all) projects, that have pam dependency, have this:
Code:
if [ -L /lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/libpam.so.? ]; then
USE_PAM="--enable-pam" # or --wth-pam or --with-libpam
else
unset USE_PAM
fi
This way, they can easily be recompiled with/without pam
And those of us who completely ignore everything and just memory smash buttons during the install will end up with a broken system and confused! ;-)
I'm just asking for the removal of "Menu" , since Expert is exactly the same thing, and having the output of Expert changed to a terse one just to make it go quicker after choosing the packages I want.
Yeah, but...but...but... how many Slackers have Blue-ray burners in their machines ???
Fortunately it is possible to buy USB connected bluray burners which you also can move to different machines to boot from. I prefer to install from a read only bluray media instead of a USB flash stick.
My own custom Slackware installation media no longer fits on a Dual Layer DVD as it contains some big third party packages like texlive-extra and texlive-docs.
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