[arch-releng] [RFC] [PATCH] [configs/releng] Add four packages to live-enviroment

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:34:12 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> core/linux-atm:
>     * This was present in 2010.05
>     * Optionally needed by iproute2. Needed for ATM connections.
> 
> extra/irssi:
>     * Requested by Florian Pritz
>        http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-July/001853.html
> 
> extra/smartmontools:
>     * Requested by Thomas Mudrunka
>        https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25633
> 
> extra/mtools:
>     * This was present in 2010.05
>     * Optionally dependency of syslinux. Needed if want to install
> syslinux on vfat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
> ---
>  configs/releng/packages.i686   |    4 ++++
>  configs/releng/packages.x86_64 |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.i686
> b/configs/releng/packages.i686 index a7427aa..27db22c 100644
> --- a/configs/releng/packages.i686
> +++ b/configs/releng/packages.i686
> @@ -16,8 +16,11 @@ hdparm
>  inetutils
>  ipw2100-fw
>  ipw2200-fw
> +irssi
>  lftp
>  lilo
> +linux-atm
> +mtools
>  netcfg
>  nfs-utils
>  nilfs-utils
> @@ -32,6 +35,7 @@ parted
>  pptpclient
>  rp-pppoe
>  rsync
> +smartmontools
>  speedtouch
>  tcpdump
>  vpnc
> diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 index a7427aa..27db22c 100644
> --- a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> +++ b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> @@ -16,8 +16,11 @@ hdparm
>  inetutils
>  ipw2100-fw
>  ipw2200-fw
> +irssi
>  lftp
>  lilo
> +linux-atm
> +mtools
>  netcfg
>  nfs-utils
>  nilfs-utils
> @@ -32,6 +35,7 @@ parted
>  pptpclient
>  rp-pppoe
>  rsync
> +smartmontools
>  speedtouch
>  tcpdump
>  vpnc

big -1 on irssi. if you want to irc, you have networking, and you can `pacman -S <whichever client you want>`.

smartmontools.. if you think we have enough space to install these kinds of "misc sysadmin" packages, then fine for me.

the others sound like they have a valid reason to be on there.

Dieter