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From: Eric Sammer <esammer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:19:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40157643.2010602@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401262111.43505.pauldv@gentoo.org>

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Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 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

This is one of those situations that's bound to be a little messy. If we 
group packages ala gnome desktop, kde desktop, office utilities, server 
daemons, etc. we're begging to upset users. I'm also thinking that 
presenting them with a portage tree and telling them to go to town might 
be tough too (for new users). I don't know what the right answer is 
here. Personally, I would like to be able to select individual packages 
and have it grey out the dependencies as I do so.

But that's me.

-- 
Eric Sammer
Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 20:19 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 [this message]
2004-01-26 20:20       ` Donnie Berkholz
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

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