Re: Package unions
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > would depend on smail, on base, etc...
>
> > And What if I prefer sendmail instead of qmail (for example)? You
> Then you wouldn't install "simple-debian", you'd install "base" and then
> select sendmail. The point wasn't to require anyone to do anything, it
> was just to allow new users who are overwhelmed with the package selection
> mechanism to say "Yeah, I just want a working linux machine that can do
> mail and telnet and stuff", select a single package, and get it
> installed ok.
I have wanted this for a very long time... As is, I can not recomend Debian
to _TOTAL_ beginners to UN*X, because dselect takes some time to get used to...
What would be greate is a pre-menu before that 'access/update/select/install'
menu... Say 'Do you want to install a: Workstation with X11, mini system'
etc (with apropriate pre-selections), then a beginner can select the first
(in this example) and still get a _VERY_ good UN*X machine... That wouldn't
be _TO_ hard to code to dselect, would it?
> > people I advised to try Debian went to install RedHat, because they
> > couldn't get through dselect... It's kind of boring having to browse
Agree fully, I _STILL_ think browsing those packages are boring (but
educating... :)
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