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Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

by Andrew Gaffney :: Rate this Message:

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Mirosław Mieszczak wrote:
> That would be nice to see midnight commander on live-cd, as it allow quick
> browsing over all directories, especially for new gentoo users (of course in
> case if they don't use installer).

There already GUI file managers on the LiveCD.

> Second thing I would like to see just on live-cd is kernel module for reiser4
> (of course in that case it should be with adnotation that this particular fs
> isn't supported by gentoo), there are many users who use this filesystem, and
> all of them must prepare their own livecd to install, or to repair the
> system.

No. (Do I have to say more? :P)

You will see reiserfs4 support on the LiveCD when support for it is included
upstream in the kernel. The gentoo-sources patchset doesn't (and never will)
contain "experimental" features like that.

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