Re: Package unions
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
>
> > > entitled "simple-debian" that would have no actual binaries, just
> [..]
> > > with a simple preconfigured debian linux system, because "simple-debian"
> > > 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.
Oh, sorry, I think I have misunderstood your Idea, yeah this would
be nice, I think it would be better If this could be choosen _before_
running dselect, during installation time, if the user does not want one
of the "standard" setups he/she then goes to dselect, and even better if
dselect could browse one section at a time IMHO.
> As those users move themselves up the learning curve later there'd
> be nothing to prevent them from removing smail and installing sendmail,
> provided that "simple-debian" didn't end up in the status file, which it
> wouldn't need to, because it doesn't have any files in it anyway.
Sure.
> > 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
> 'zactly.
Turbo stated that this is "educating" I do think so, but not at
install time, the user wnats to have a running system, then , after that
he says "whoa, Debian is wonderful, what more can I do with it?" And then,
with a running system and happy, he goes out to discover Debian"
> Will
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