I like that idea of a Core DE choice. It's makes it easier also for less experienced users to get a lightweight and customized system without the struggles of a core installation.

Personally I also prefer to have a non-splitted OOo package, that's just easier to handle and less misleading.

BTW, what is our common main goal & philosophy? Yes, I think we have to write down an exact philsopy in Facts asap. Otherwise we'll end up with no straight line. I think KISS should be one point and a democratic leadership meaning not only one leader but decisions are done together. Important i...

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I think the PermitRoot no thing is more like security by obscurity. Something that blocks of those generic script kiddies. :) By permitting root, you give those kiddies a valid username and the only thing they have to discover is the password. Makes their job a lot easier. Should be hard for them t...

A web interface coupled with e version control systme (svn ?) could solve all of this. I will explain a bit futher if you like (I have no time today). I would be interested in hearing a bit more about this as I had quite good experience with vcs lately. But I can't exactly imagine how it's used for...

I like to avoid the su step because it breaks X Forwarding. But for outside public SSH access the connection is anyway to slow for X Forwarding.
I think the PermitRoot no thing is more like security by obscurity. Something that blocks of those generic script kiddies.

That's why I type in my password plain.

If there a no real arguments for PAM, I don't see why we should add it because my impression was also that it's just complicating things (e.g. autologin you get that lastlogin message).

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JRD wrote:OK, good point.

I like the way decisions/discussions are made here Very different from Zenwalk.

I can troll some if you want

Very different from the ZW IRC Channel too.

That means that we can very well imagine a text installer that actually 'unsquashfs some modules' instead of 'installing some packages' and this can be used as a back end for the gui installer. Both text installer & gui installer can very well & should be internationalized. That's exactly w...

gapan wrote: Code: Directory var/log/setup/tmp/ has no read permssions No idea what that dir is for though. Taken from the original SlackBuild: chmod 700 $startdir/pkg/var/log/setup/tmp No idea what's this for. Afaik it's used during install time. The installer stores there all?/?some temporary fil...