pptp-linux

[Sivan Green]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:36:48 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:29:51AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Looking at the package, it is very simple, essentially just supplying
> > > /usr/sbin/pptp.  As such, it should be quite safe.  We currently include
> > > ppp, pppoeconf, etc. in the BaseSeed with similar justifications.  However,
> > > PPTP is not as commonly needed, and perhaps ShipSeed is sufficient.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > It would probably be reasonably sensible to move quite a few of these
> > packages from BaseSeed to ShipSeed (with existing solutions such as
> > bpalogin and eagle-usb). It's rare that you'd use all these different
> > kinds of methods in a single installation, though very handy to have
> > them available on the disk.
> 
> BaseSeed should be sufficient to let you get to the rest of the stuff, and
> that certainly includes networking.  However, I agree that it's not sane to
> try to account for every possible type of networking in Base.
> 
> I _think_ ppp is there because d-i can configure it for you, so I'd like
> Colin's input before moving that one.  Other packages in this category
> are the config tools, pppconfig and pppoeconf, but they arguably belong with
> ppp.
As we talked on #ubuntu-devel, I understood pptp-linux is going to be
in ShipSeed and that's a very godo thing, I offer to try incorporate a
d-i config question for it, just to let those with pptp dialing
broadband (like most of cable using people in Israel) to download
fresh updates off the net at the installation occasion.


Sivan