Re: Freezing Bo (Debian 1.3)

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'Steve Dunham wrote:'
>
>more long term issues:
>
>I also noticed that most of TeX is installed by default and X is not.
>This is a little weird. We really need some kind of "meta selection"
>utility for installation. 
>
>A Q&D solution would be this:
>
>  If the user selects Express Install:
>    Give him a dialog to select "subsystems" that he wants:
>      e.g. TeX, X, etc.
>    Then modify the list of selected packages accordingly
>    Finally, ask if he want to go into dselect to fine tune
>     his choices.

Have you looked at ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf/debian/selectmenu.tgz?

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