Re: Gentoo installer project

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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 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 package=
s
> > that, no doubt, will contain stuff I don't want in each one is
> > problematic and time consuming.
>=20
> I think we might order the packages on their leaf status. you normally=20
> wouldn't want to select glibc as a package to include. If you want X you=20
> normally just select your windowmanager etc. Maybe we could even provide =
some=20
> grouping.

I like the leaf idea, as long as each leaf is provided with a short
description as some of the names aren't immediately obvious.

If we get dependencies auto-selected and -deselected, this could work
out pretty well.

We should have a few sane groupings like "Desktop," "Workstation"
(desktop plus any extra development stuff) and "Server" as well as a
"Custom" where everything is manual.

Donnie

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