Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 16 h 41, the keyboard of Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that > some of the most obvious installation profiles of slink stay to be > unnecessarily bloated. Giving the size of the current pro

Re: Installation Profiles

1999-01-31 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Jonathan P Tomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >a possibility i considered: divide user-space...packages into >heirarchical groups (structure identical or similar to the debian >menus, possibly?). have a level wherein the user selects any of these >he wants; it will be easy to skip those things he

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-31 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
> Might it be possible to include fewer packages in each profile and then > present the user with a list of additional packages that might be of > interest to them given that they have chosen this particular profile? > Something like "You have installed the Scientific Workstation profile. The > fo

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread John Hasler
Paul Seelig writes: > Myself i do prefer XEmacs over all other variants but wouldn't mind if > i had to install it later on my own. I prefer emacs, bu I also wouldn't mind if > i had to install it later on my own. In fact, I would not mind at all if emacs was optional. > IMHO it would be much wi

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> [ redundant emacs versions ] > > Well, I'll suggest that for potato. It will start a nice flame-war on > > debian-devel "emacs vs. xemacs". > > > Hey, that's just what we need at this stage for *slink*! >:-) > > Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that > some of th