Re: Debian-lite
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Jason Ish wrote:
> > I don't see why any of this customized setup can't be done from dselect. Just
>
> The problem with this is that I will have custom packages. My smail will
> be different than Debian's default smail, my fvwm would be different, etc.
Why not, rather than have "customized packages", which seems like a lot
of duplication of work already done, have "customizer packages" ... an
smail-config package that depends on smail.deb and does nothing but allow
the user to choose between one of several smail configurations and then
installs *just the necessary configuration files* ... and an
fvwm-config package that required you already have fvwm (and X, etc)
installed, but sets up nice menus and icons, etc based on what's already
installed ...
You could even have a "Router.deb" package that consists only of
dependencies on all the packages needed for a router install
and configurations for all of those packages on a router.
That way you:
1) provide good, easily-upgradable "default installs"
2) avoid redoing the work of the smail package maintainer
Heck, you could even have a "I want Debian to be as Win95-like as
possible" package for those migrating to linux.
If I'm being overly naive here, let me know. Ever since I've
installed debian, though, I've wondered if such a thing was possible ...
it'd help new users get things going without killing the happy
customization-ability of Debian.
Will
harpo@udel.edu
lowe@cis.udel.edu
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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