"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If I have a 400 gig hard drive, I don't see why I need 99.99% of it > empty instead of 99.0% after I do my OS install. Even though I currently only have 80 megs (about the minimum one can currently buy), I've about decided you are right. Having just installed a 3 CD game last night, I realize that my stinginess with disk space for more serious stuff is obsolete. (My first hard disk was 5 or 10 megs.) A gigabyte would cover Python + Wxpython + numarray + scipy + pygame + a lot of other stuff. Would it be possible, at least for Windows, to write a Python script implementing a 'virtual distribution'? IE, download Python, install it, download next package, install it, etc. -- prefereably table driven? Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list