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well if nothing else it was a good daydream. 


--- Stephen Turner <artic_knight at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hey ive played with gengoo a little and was considering making my own
> scripts for building systems. what i had in mind was to take a general
> kernal like redhat debian or various install or boot cds use plus a very
> minimal system just enough to untar onto a system and install lilo or
> something and be a usable system. from there have it able to use a dl
> agent like wget and bash scripts. what i had aimed at doing was making
> the
> quickest to install easiest to modify system. a real linux from scratch
> that comes prepackaged. the scripts would have different settings, some
> automatically keeping things up to date (could be dangerous at breaking
> systems i know.). 
> 
> i liked gentoos scripted installs and dep handlers. it installs only
> what
> you need. however gentoo installs some unneeded apps for servers
> sometimes, eh not many and yes they can be edited out but what about a
> very basic system that can be used as a pre-scripted firewall, webserver
> or desktop system? and gentoo downloads all the scripts, what i had
> hoped
> for was a central repository of scripts and downloading only the ones
> you
> use, and no need for updated scripts as these would seek out the most
> updated version of the package. 
> 
> has anyone seen something like this? or wrote something like this? ive
> been busy lately just got back into playing with linux :-p took a cruise
> down to the bahamas, said hi to ivan. lots of fun. oh well later guys.
> 
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