A few thoughts on lunar-1.5.0-TESTING-20050517.iso

[Terry Chan]

Haven't had time to install this, but I did download it and took a quick look
at the contents of the iso, and here are a few thoughts:

1. Why bother to include a /var/cache/lunar/ that is populated with tar.bz2 files
if all of those modules are already installed on the iso ?  I can see maybe
glibc, gcc, in var/cache/ in case those modules get hosed some how.  This just
seems to make the iso unnecessarily large.

2. Where is VIM ?  Its in /var/cache/lunar on the ISO, but is not installed in
/usr/bin.  But there is a symlink for /usr/bin/vimdiff.

3. Broken symlinks in /usr/bin for: flex++, geqn, lex, size86, vimdiff, zsoelim

4. Where is zile ?  We were including that on the ISO for the emacs nuts.

5. Where is bitchx, or irssi or some irc client so that users can boot the iso
and still ask for help in text mode in #lunar ?  We used to include at least
one irc client on the ISO.

6. Broken symlink for /sbin/rtstat

7. Why are these directories included on the ISO: /BUILD, /.dirs,  /.etcf, /.init,
/.kernels, /.packages, /.proper, /.rebuild, /.unpack

8. In /bin you have duplicates for gawk, and pgawk.  Make the symlinks for\
gawk-3.1.4, and pgawk-3.1.4 <--- waste of space.

9. Why are there /var/cache/ccache/ subdirs on the ISO ?

10. Broken symlinks in /usr/lib/ for libdb* (several items here), libffi.so,
libgettextlib.so, libgettextsrc.so, libglib.so, libgmodule.so, libgthread.so.

11. Why is there a /var/build/ directory on the ISO ?

12. Why isn't rsync included on the ISO in /usr/bin ?  This tool is the basis for
install Lunar over a network mounted ISO.

Time for some sleep now...

Terry Chan