-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Thomas Pani wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Andrew Gaffney <agaff...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> The real issue here is the size. If these additional packages plus all of > >> the alsa modules add 20MB to the minimal CD, it's just not worth it. It's > >> not "minimal" anymore. > >> > >> > > Could you elaborate whom that change would affect (negatively)? 83MB > > for current x86 isn't really "minimal" any more, anyway. > > I don't see the difference between 83MB and 103MB: > > - Makes no difference on blank CD (even those minis have ~200MB). > > - Regarding download size, well, after the CD you'll have to get the > > stage tarball and most probably source tarballs as well. > > > > -- > > Thomas Pani > > > > > > > > For a person on dial-up, about 2 1/2 hours of additional download. That > said, I'd be OK with the increase in size if it would help a person who > can't see the screen. It is impossible for a person who can't see the screen to install gentoo linux from our current release media unless they do what I did, which was to have someone read the screen to me long enough to assist me with starting an ssh server on the livecd and figure out the IP address of the computer, so that I could ssh in from my second computer to do the install.
In other words, putting this software on our media will not just help, but make it possible for a blind person to install gentoo independently. Only adding the software to the live cd is not an option for me, because I feel that all of our release media should be accessible. Yes, there will be a size increase for the release media, but, unless the alsa modules and alsa-utils are over 15 mb, it will not be a 20 mb increase. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoYpmQACgkQblQW9DDEZThbRwCdGswP4rJIEkREb54LG9Z3PjjH eF0AmQHXE6keEZDxA2r0bLe1rfakmR9C =ThQY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
