Simple answer... You CANNOT install everything on the CD. But this is not a bug. Debian provides you with at least two ways (maybe more) of doing everything. Many of these packages cannot co-exist. You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same time, kaos would result! But debain provides several of them so you can pick the one that suits your needs best. There are at least half a dozen window managers in X for example, you can only use one. Here though all may be copied to the disk, but only one may be 'installed'. There is a difference between being copied to disk, and installed to run.
I would agree however, that a good description of each package would help you decide what to install. ------------------------------------------------------- I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software in it like Debian 1.3.1 . Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. I have used Debian 1.3.1 in the past but I think that having packages that confict is a bad thing. I think that making all the packages in Debian compatable would be a big plus. In Debian 1.3.1 this is not the cast. For example you cannot install emacs and xemacs in Debian 1.3.1 . I'm guessing some of the filenames in these two packages are the same. To get rid of this confict you can just install them in different directories or something like that. It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install. I prefer to just install all of them without picking through them. Hard disk space is now cheep, and _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
