Hi
I did experiment today with ArchPup as the weather was to bad to do something else.
Mozilla:
There is no Mozilla included.
I did never use some *.pet or *.sfs from Puppy for Mozilla
. It is completely silly dilly as with one hit on the package directly downloaded from Mozilla, you get a lib directory with all what you need and really actual (ok, you need perhaps some dependencies depending from Puplet...).
There is no need to include it into the puplet by real installation: It is really as well outside directly in the home partition! and it works very well so.
For that, you need only a link in /usr/lib to the directory of your lovely mozilla in the partition and a link in /usr/bin to the precedent link in the /usr/lib with the completed path to the starting module:
# ln -s /mnt/home/.../seamonkey /usr/lib/seamonkey
# ln -s /usr/lib/seamonkey/seamonkey /usr/bin/firefox (yes firefox, as it is already existing in the menu as entry "browser")
and, as I suppose that ArchPup-1204 ignore the usual puppy home dir, I did add a dir
# mkdir /mnt/home into the file system as well as a command
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/home
into /root/.start so that the dir "home" is immediately already at starting time.
It is useful to complete the downloaded and unpacked Mozilla with a subdir .../plugins and to add in it an flashplayer.so from an other Puppy you are using
as well as a subdir /dictionnaries if you are using some ones (you need pairs of files as en-GB.aff + en-GB.dic).
probably it would be possible to do the same with /adblocplus (being to find in a /root/.mozilla/seamonkey/pipapo123.default/addblockplus) but I did not test that until yet.
(the objective is that you save file or, if you work as I completely without save file, the time to create and populate /root/.mozilla/seamonkey/pipapo123.default/ , has to be small!)
add packages from Arch
In my opinion, it is the last thing to do
!
why?
because:
SFS-Load on the fly
- works really very well
- supports till 20 SFS (very different from other Puppy's with only 6)
also
why fatten my smart Puplet with things if I don't need them permanently 
?
I am sorry, but I don't like the place of the entry for "SFS-Load on the fly" in the menu in a submenu of submenu! It would be really better to use a permanet icon in the task bar on the sound mixer icon for example, as it is an essential function in a base-only-Puppy able to manage perfectly as much SFS's!! And I don't like the tons of little windows opening why I don't use some save file etc. I know what I do and don't need permanently a controller or employee to remember me what I do! It costs my time to answer such silly dilly messages and I don't like that... sorry, it is my opinion! a fluid work processing is not possible under such disturbing activity for nothing. ideal would be a/ I hit on an icon in the task bar, b/ I select a SFS, c/ I enter return, finish!
and to unload a SFS I would use the menu...
next problem is that a lot of available *.sfs packages already existing needs other dependencies OR, and that is very vicious in Linux, REQUIRE EXISTING lib's UNDER AN OTHER NAME
...
so we can only do a thing: announce in a separate thread tested SFS packages already tested and the url where they are offered to download. I did test today a lot of the big quantity of SFS being offered by Lazy Puppy (a really superb collection on a fast server), but rare are the SFS starting well - Firefox does it, LP2-LibreOffice331.sfs does it also (but requires 4 times java, that is not really needed for all operations... a bad heritage from the dependence from SUN
! it is really unpleasant!) etc.
I miss of course mTpaint as well as divers very small goodies, beeing permanently available (especially didiwiki as it is a real extrem small to elaborate smart texts for the own use)
and, very important, a package to print, scan and OCR texts! I don't need them each day as the modern kind of live is more email and sms oriented, but often. it is no reason to install them permanently and fatten so the ideal small Puplet! a office helping SFS would be very well with cups gutenprint, xsane and gocr! but a Linux without printing support is a poor Linux...
what are you thinking about the best ways to fatten this elegant and smart Puppy without to make it unnecessary fat?
kind regards
