From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:20:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075148429.16722.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401262111.43505.pauldv@gentoo.org>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1106 bytes --]
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 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.
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
[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 5:35 [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 9:57 ` dams
2004-01-26 10:58 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 14:16 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:07 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 13:37 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:11 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:19 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:20 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2004-01-28 11:55 ` dams
2004-01-26 11:10 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 14:33 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 17:48 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 20:15 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:21 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:27 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:22 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-26 20:30 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:22 ` foser
2004-01-26 20:25 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-26 20:37 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 22:41 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-27 0:05 ` Scott Koch
2004-01-27 6:07 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1075148429.16722.4.camel@localhost \
--to=spyderous@gentoo.org \
--cc=gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox