Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> I think we might order the packages on their leaf status. you normally 
> wouldn't want to select glibc as a package to include. If you want X you 
> normally just select your windowmanager etc. Maybe we could even provide some 
> grouping.
> 
> Paul

This is one of those situations that's bound to be a little messy. If we 
group packages ala gnome desktop, kde desktop, office utilities, server 
daemons, etc. we're begging to upset users. I'm also thinking that 
presenting them with a portage tree and telling them to go to town might 
be tough too (for new users). I don't know what the right answer is 
here. Personally, I would like to be able to select individual packages 
and have it grey out the dependencies as I do so.

But that's me.

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Eric Sammer
Gentoo Linux
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