Re: dselect

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

The smaller version would have an easier interface, some packages
pre-selected and less chances to get one in trouble at the expense
of having a smaller subset of things to choose from. After it gets
the basics installed (required packages). Then it would launch the
more full-featured version that has NOTHING preselected and does
NOT reselect the same packages that you had selected the last time
that you ran it.


On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Just a short suggestion:
> > 
> > Split dselect.  A small one (dinstall?) just for installation and a more
> > full-featured one for configuration management.
> 
> Okay I will bite, Why?
> 
> If you have a small dselect then the first thing to be installed would be
> the larger dselect.
> 
> Now perhaps two different programs with different roles would be a good
> idea, but what would they be more specificaly? 
> 
> Here is an idea that seems to have been hinted at indirectly by a number
> of posts and that is a configuration aide for newbies. It would present
> them with a list of packages and tell them were the config files are and
> direct them to the /usr/doc/package files, etc.. I donno.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 

I am giving .sigs a break this month

George Bonser
grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@cris.com