Re: Handling Typical Installations

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, David Engel wrote:

> We simply create a new section (let's call it "typical" for now) and
> populate it with dummy packages that don't contain any files but
> depend on the desired set of real packages.  For example, we could

I suggested this a while back,  and it was met with a favorable response
(this was a few months ago when we were arguing about replacing dselect).
I think that part of the problem is getting the ball rolling.  Another
thing is that the proposed Diety standard includes something like this,
called "profiles".

                     					Will

			        harpo@udel.edu
			       lowe@cis.udel.edu
			http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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