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Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said: |
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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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The leaf list is a very good idea ! |
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But actually, my concern is that I don't think it's something that is part of |
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the installation. This should be part of a portage frontend, that could be |
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called during installation (in chroot), or at first boot. |
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installation should (imho) install the base system, then reboot (or have a |
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complete chroot), to let the tasks to be done by configuration tools & portage |
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