Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

[Dima <dima@eris.dev.null>]

In message <[🔎] 87hgh88f69.fsfjgh@win.bright.net> you wrote:
>Adam Shand writes:
>> This is *just* to get newbies installed and working.  I'd do something
>> like have 3 options. 
...
>> ...and a full install ( the two before plus X windows).
>
>Thus the the true newbie, who wants most of all to dial up her ISP and use
>her browser, is forced to do a full install.
>
>I suggest:
>
>1) Basic Unix, with enough dev stuff to compile a kernel.  *No* networking.
>
>2) 1), plus basic networking (MTA & MUA, but no servers).

For a newbie who only wants to pop his mail Netscrape?  :)

Actually the idea of meta-packages was kinda nice and easily incorporated
into the existing dependencies mechanism.

Dimitri