[arch-general] [arch-releng] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:22:39 -0600
jwbirdsong <jwbirdsong at jwbirdsong.homelinux.com> wrote:

>   On 06/25/2010 11:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch
> > on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup
> > internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I
> > had to carry wvdial's package in another pen drive.
> >
> > It would be nice if wvdial was included in the ISO, so such people
> > can have the latest system if they conduct an FTP install.
> >
> Maybe CC a copy of this to the arch-releng ML.  Oh wait I just did.
> And perhaps add a feature request to the Release Eng bug tracker/

As far as I can see, none of the current packages [1] contains a dialing
tool, so looks ok for me.

[1]
http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686

Dieter