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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 January 2004 14:37, Eric Sammer wrote: |
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> > Right. It should be (in my opinion) manual package selection by default. |
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> > This is what our (current) users seem to expect, myself included. |
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> > Working primarily with servers, having to choose from groups of packages |
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> > that, no doubt, will contain stuff I don't want in each one is |
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> > problematic and time consuming. |
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> I think we might order the packages on their leaf status. you normally |
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> wouldn't want to select glibc as a package to include. If you want X you |
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> normally just select your windowmanager etc. Maybe we could even provide some |
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> grouping. |
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I like the leaf idea, as long as each leaf is provided with a short |
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description as some of the names aren't immediately obvious. |
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If we get dependencies auto-selected and -deselected, this could work |
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out pretty well. |
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We should have a few sane groupings like "Desktop," "Workstation" |
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(desktop plus any extra development stuff) and "Server" as well as a |
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"Custom" where everything is manual. |
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Donnie |
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