| cjdg | hi there, i been testing edubuntu, and wanted to ask if there is possible to add wine as a preinstalled package, also maybe bottles too? here is the thing, is pretty common in schools to use windows based software, | 16:31 |
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| Eickmeyer | cjdg: So, if we were to add wine, it would make the image gigantic beyond 6.0GiB. Bottles isn't in the repos, so that's a no-go. | 16:47 |
| Eickmeyer | wine is easily installable via the repos. I would have a hard time justifying it to the higher-ups. | 16:48 |
| Eickmeyer | We are held accountable for the size of the preinstallation .iso image size, and every time it goes above the limit I'm asked two things: either to bring it back down or to have the release team increase the limit. | 16:50 |
| Eickmeyer | Increasing the limit has risks: 1) people are more reluctant to download due to the size, and 2) the infrastructure becomes more burdened. | 16:50 |
| cjdg | ohhh | 17:25 |
| cjdg | i see | 17:25 |
| cjdg | thanks | 17:25 |
| cjdg | i was thinking something | 17:27 |
| cjdg | in countries like mexico, there are places which internet is impossible | 17:27 |
| cjdg | and most people are non tech | 17:28 |
| cjdg | can we make a gui like system to make a portable installer, using apt-cache or similars, and include it to edubuntu? | 17:29 |
| Eickmeyer | 🤔 | 17:30 |
| Eickmeyer | We have ways of seeding packages for offline installation, but, again, that increases the .iso image size. | 17:31 |
| Eickmeyer | Anything we include in Edubuntu increases the .iso image size, so it all comes back to the same problem. | 17:32 |
| cjdg | i mean, not seeding the iso | 17:32 |
| cjdg | like a gui based tool for filling a folder | 17:33 |
| cjdg | in a hdd or usb, and move it to | 17:33 |
| cjdg | where is needed | 17:33 |
| Eickmeyer | I see what you're saying. | 17:33 |
| cjdg | i used apt-mirror and similars | 17:33 |
| cjdg | so making this "portable gui repo maker" | 17:34 |
| cjdg | for using on edubuntu | 17:34 |
| cjdg | even maybe available in the live cd, | 17:34 |
| cjdg | now that ubuntu has raspberry support, is more easy to have the repos for almost any architecture | 17:35 |
| cjdg | i can try to make it | 17:36 |
| cjdg | just one question, does there is any gui guideline you would like it will follow? | 17:37 |
| cjdg | also if you want in any particular programming language..? | 17:37 |
| Eickmeyer | So, typically GTK is what we'd want to use on GNOME, and I've typically used bash with the frontend being zenity because I'm simple and that's what I know. But if you want to write it in another language, that's up to you. | 17:38 |
| Eickmeyer | We just don't want to break any policies, that's my only concern here (meaning, packaging policies or others) | 17:39 |
| Eickmeyer | I can do the packaging if you can write it. | 17:39 |
| cjdg | ok | 17:39 |
| cjdg | and here is the important thing | 17:40 |
| cjdg | how we call it? | 17:40 |
| Eickmeyer | This is the perfect time to do something since it's the beginning of the cycle. Feature Freeze is end of February. | 17:40 |
| cjdg | great! | 17:41 |
| Eickmeyer | local-repo-maker or something to that effect seems reasonable. | 17:41 |
| cjdg | ok im making the repo on github, which licence would you like it to have? | 17:44 |
| Eickmeyer | cjdg: One could, in theory, take edubuntu's .iso image and respin it using cubic if they wanted to add wine. | 17:44 |
| Eickmeyer | cjdg: Something not too permissive but still compatible, such as GPL-3 is fine. | 17:44 |
| Eickmeyer | Er, GPL-3+ (meaning GPL 3 or later) | 17:44 |
| cjdg | https://github.com/cjdg/local-repo-maker | 17:45 |
| Eickmeyer | Cool. | 17:45 |
| cjdg | have to go man, see you later, have a nice weekend! | 18:02 |
| Eickmeyer | cjdg: You too! I'll probably be low on communication this next week as I'm heading to Latvia, but I'll catch you as much as possible. | 18:02 |
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