Re: Gentoo installer project

Paul de Vrieze <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:11:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop.research
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 26 January 2004 14:37, Eric Sammer wrote:
>
> Right. It should be (in my opinion) manual package selection by default.
> This is what our (current) users seem to expect, myself included.
> Working primarily with servers, having to choose from groups of packages
> that, no doubt, will contain stuff I don't want in each one is
> problematic and time consuming.

I think we might order the packages on their leaf status. you normally 
wouldn't want to select glibc as a package to include. If you want X you 
normally just select your windowmanager etc. Maybe we could even provide some 
grouping.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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