The big thing, is that we really, really don't want someone accidentally installing too many packages. Or generally messing something up.

Hence the massive amount of disclaimers and warnings in my experimental guides, and on Lee's experimental procedure pages.

I only have one or two packages on my MV, but I would say that a very, very safe maximum would be 5 smaller side packages.

You could go above that though. 

Chris Seto

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Chris S. Seto
Owner of hackingthehpmediavault
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Anders Nylen wrote:

Hi Lee
I figured and can appreciate the need to keep the two groups
separated. For sure there are a lot of people in your group that
would appreciate the options that IPKG brings, I'm sure they will
find their way to this group eventually.

/Anders

--- In hackingthemediavault@yahoogroups.com, "Lee Devlin"
<lee810@...> wrote:
>
> IPKG is definitely a topic that belongs on this group because it
may eventually initiate a lot of discussions that would confuse the
daylights out of 90% of the people in the regular group. IPKG
installations are a two-edge sword. For example, they make it so
easy to install new applications that a monkey can do it, but they
could create interactions so complicated that no one but a genius
could fix it.
>
> Karl did a smart thing when he created JRUN to basically duplicate
the root directory on the hard drive. That, combined with the hard
reset to remove the reference to startup.sh, should be able to get
most people out of trouble if they install something that renders
the MV inoperable. But I'd prefer not to be addressing questions
about JRUN and IPKG on the main group.
>
> Another issue with IPKG and JRUN is that Karl got busy and doesn't
seem to have the time to support it so I think that in this group,
people who are likely to have better technical skills can help each
other, rather than having nubes discuss it on the general forum.
>
> We can always put a reminder on the main forum to let people know
that IPKG is working now if people want to do some experimenting.
>
> -Lee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris S.
> To: hackingthemediavault@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [hackingthemediavault] Re: IPKG kit now available!!
>
>
> I think that because there aren't nearly as many people here, as
there are in Lee's group, not very many people have seen this.
>
> Chris Seto
>
>
> ====
> Chris S. Seto
> Owner of hackingthehpmediavault
> ====
>
> Anders Nylen wrote:
> I get the feeling that this is not getting the attention it
> deserves. Has anyone used this to install anything useful?
>
> /Anders
> --- In hackingthemediavault@yahoogroups.com, "Chris S."
> <blue765d@> wrote:
> >
> > The IPKG kit talked about a bit ago is now released!
> >
> > See Lee Devlins website below for more information, and the
files.
> >
> > http://www.k0lee.com/hpmediavault/jrun.htm
> >
> > Chris Seto
> >
> > --
> > ====
> > Chris S. Seto
> > Owner of hackingthehpmediavault
> > ====
> >
>