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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/13/2017 12:19 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2017-08-11 kl. 23:46, skrev Israel:
>> ...
>>
>
> Hi Israel,
>
> 1. I am positive to attempts to make people use the torrent method to
> get ToriOS.
>
> 2. See this link, where I have tried (and I think succeeded) to make
> the PPA for mkusb to work also for Debian Stretch and Buster. Maybe it
> can add some detail, that makes things easier for ToriOS.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/install-to-debian
>
> Best regards
> Nio

Hi Nio,

I have made a Stretch base tarball... but the issue is that installing a
PPA is super annoying.  You must manually add the key (as you know) and
install dirmngr and (etc... I forgot all the hubaloo I had to hack to
make it work).

So I would be pro moving to Ubuntu again... however if Ubuntu makes
moves to fully sync with RHEL (i.e. Wayland as default) using Ubuntu in
the future may become harder since JWM/FLTK all use X11... plus the
issues you face with mkusb probably will effect things with all our
stuff (perhaps).

It may be a non-issue.  Our build process could "just work" and be
completely fine, since we depend on X11 stuff... but the ISO may grow as
exponentially as it did in the move to systemd.  systemd increased the
size by a sizable portion and if there are random rouge Wayland deps in
every GTK+ app we will probably be looking at DVD ONLY soon like
everyone else.

We will have to wait and see, and see if Debian fixes their silly PPA
issue (i.e breaking add-apt-repository)

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Regards