In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Adam Shand writes: >> This is *just* to get newbies installed and working. I'd do something >> like have 3 options. ... >> ...and a full install ( the two before plus X windows). > >Thus the the true newbie, who wants most of all to dial up her ISP and use >her browser, is forced to do a full install. > >I suggest: > >1) Basic Unix, with enough dev stuff to compile a kernel. *No* networking. > >2) 1), plus basic networking (MTA & MUA, but no servers).
For a newbie who only wants to pop his mail Netscrape? :) Actually the idea of meta-packages was kinda nice and easily incorporated into the existing dependencies mechanism. Dimitri
