Re: [MiNT] freemint & xaaes release

[Miro Kropacek <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>]

Erm, forgot to send to mintlist, too.

Miro Kropacek wrote:
> > Maybe it's also a good idea to make a new release of the freemint 
> > kernel. I know that a lot of people already regulary use the the 
> > current-cvs version of freemint & xaaes, so it seems to be pretty 
> > stable :-)
> I welcome this as well. In fact, everytime I do reinstall (either for 
> testing or new install) the first thing after easymint setup is to 
> copying new kernel from cvs... and if I need mintlib, I do it as well.
>
> One comment: there are some RPMs (freemint, freemint-gem, 
> freemint-net, freemint-sbin) -- it would be good idea to update them, 
> too. At least I remember I fixed one thing in slattach. And also, 
> maybe we should reconsider the need for all this RPMs -- their names 
> are very confusing, I remember I realized maybe after 3 years(!) what 
> are they for...
>
> You can't use freemint kernel RPM without kernel itself and the 
> toswin2, fscheck etc... they are nearly independent from freemint... 
> but I don't know, let the other say their commentary on this.. My idea 
> is to have something like kernel.zip (with all kernels and drivers), 
> xaaes.zip (with all xaaeses, RSCs, ...) and freemint-tools.zip (with 
> all stuff from  freemint/tools and net tools). RPMs are in my opinion 
> too confusing for new users (and there's plenty of them who are new to 
> freemint) -- it's easier for them to unzip archives and look what are 
> they for.

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