This is more of a request than a bug: I hope this forum is appropriate. Is it likely or possible that Python could be included on the 1.4 ISO image? The reason I ask - and I suspect I am not alone - is that we currently have an automated, customised build procedure which is written in bash. It _badly_ needs rewriting in a more maintainable language, and Python would fit the bill. At the moment, though, Python isn't on the 1.4 rc1 CD. So: any plans to do so? If not, well, back to hacking bash... Keith
I was under the impression that since portage is written in python, that python was, in fact, on the ISO. could you be a little clearer?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. At the moment Python is embedded in the stage-x tarballs, and is only available after the target disk has been partitioned and the stage-x tarball unpacked. I was requesting that Python be available from boot time onwards in the same way as, for example, bash is today. Is that clearer?
Is this script that you're trying to run some kind of "in-house" jobbie? Care to share it? :) To address the bug report directly, we *could* add it, but nothing else needs it and it will reduce the space available on the CD. It may happen, or maybe not. Still considering it.
Can share the build procedure; personal mail sent to drobbins to take this further if required.
Still not sure on this.
When we have the custom livecd script ready, this user should be able to roll his own livecd with python on it fairly easily.
