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1: ***********************************************************
2: * New changes to RPM list (bare minimal set for LON-CAPA) *
3: ***********************************************************
4:
5: Guy and Isaac kindly took time to go through the rpm package
6: listings and pencil in their thoughts about how things were
7: connected as well as suggesting modifications.
8:
9: So, to continue this thread of discussion so that we
10: can nail this down as "done", these are my responses.
11: Perhaps we finalize this at next week's meeting?
12:
13: +=agreement; -=disagreement; ?=still pondering
14:
15: (To quelch any confusion, the words following the '+-?' character
16: represent my current opinion).
17:
18: (You can view the last rpm_list.txt file in the CVS doc repository).
19: (This file is stored in rpm_list_discuss.txt in the CVS doc repository).
20:
21: + Need to add ssh support
22: + Need to add ImageMagick package
23: + Do not need tetex-dvilj
24: + Do not need tetex-xdvi
25: + Will keep tetex-afm
26: - do not need any X-based applications like
27: gftp or gv (since the bare minimal set does not support
28: X-windows; it's just a server)
29: ? krb5-libs; krb5-config
30: Gerd indicated the desire to stick with the current from-
31: source-compilation of kerberos. I probably should test
32: out these RPMs anyway on one of the machines that does not
33: yet have the kerberos functionality implemented with the
34: zaphod compiled binaries.
35: - do not need telnet or telnet server (security risk)
36: - Let's keep gnupg and gpgp packages. Support public encryption
37: and is a "failsafe" way to verify rpm packages and their files on
38: a RedHat derived system.
39: - ftp could be very useful after a admin ssh's into the system
40: (ftp is a client app, not a server). Let's keep ftp.
41: - Let's keep sysreport:
42: Here is the RPM description..
43: Sysreport is a utility which gathers information about a system's
44: hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
45: diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sysreport is commonly used to help
46: support technicians and developers by providing a "snapshot" of a
47: system's current layout.
48: - Let's keep ncompress and bzip2. Standard compression/decompression
49: utilities. In the course of maintaining, upgrading a LON-CAPA machine,
50: it is conceivable that we need to send a bzipped upgrade file (bzip2
51: is becoming more and more prevalent as I understand it).
52: + Need to add ghostscript-fonts (thanks for pointing it out Isaac).
53: ? cdrecord, cdrecord-devel
54: ? There is a whole host of image manipulation libraries. Isaac believes
55: ghostscript relies on some of these, and he's probably right.
56: libgr libgr-devel libgr-progs libjpeg libjpeg-devel libpng libpng-devel
57: libungif libungif-devel libtiff libtiff-devel
58: - Let's keep units. (very debatable still..)
59: Units converts an amount from one unit to another, or tells you what
60: mathematical operation you need to perform to convert from one unit to
61: another. Units can only handle multiplicative scale changes (i.e., it
62: can't tell you how to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, which
63: requires an additive step in addition to the multiplicative
64: conversion).
65:
66: Units is a handy little program which contains a large number of
67: conversions, from au's to parsecs and tablespoons to cups. You
68: probably don't need to install it, but it comes in handy sometimes.
69: - Let's keep routed.
70: The routed routing daemon handles incoming RIP traffic and broadcasts
71: outgoing RIP traffic about network traffic routes, in order to
72: maintain current routing tables. These routing tables are essential
73: for a networked computer, so that it knows where packets need to be
74: sent.
75:
76: The routed package should be installed on any networked machine.
77: - Let's keep quota. (What if, for instance, an instructor creates
78: stupendously huge quicktime movies?) Why crash the system?
79: The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring
80: and limiting users' and or groups' disk usage, per filesystem.
81:
82: Install quota if you want to monitor and/or limit user/group disk
83: usage.
84: + Let's get rid of shapecfg. (It does set traffic bandwidth parameters,
85: but this probably is ridiculous overhead).
86: - No need for netscape-navigator since, once again, the bare minimal
87: system will not have X-windows
88: ? cracklib/cracklib-dicts: seriously, there may be a real issue with
89: instructors picking very-easy-to guess passwords. Do we want some
90: level of password enforcement?
91: + Ok ok ok ok.. we'll have man-pages if it makes Guy happy :)
92: - giftrans, not really needed, is it?
93: - sgml-common/libxml/etc, most of the redhat rpms related to sgml and xml
94: are still in their infancy in terms of providing needed algorithms.
95: I don't think we are using any of them. Are we?
96: - We don't need imlib or imlib-devel. It is X-windows specific.
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