Seems to be a lot of threads about package selection on boot up.
I would have been happy with seeing them at all!!! I hate software that
tells ME what it's going to install. One of the things I truly HATE about
M$ is when yet another program tries to install MSIE (3.x? 4.x?) on my
shrinking hda!!!!'
:-)
Hopefully this will make it into the final.......
Lou Guerriero
> >
> > While it was installing, I was wondering if Mandrake wasn't pushing
> > quantity instead of quality in terms of bundled software. I mean,
> > there seems to be a lots of redundancy or stuff that should be
> > installed afterwards. A sort of "minimal handpick software" would be
> > nice. How about having the possibility of filling a questionnaire for
> > new users and use that to select the packages? (Do you want to publish
> > web pages? Do you want to edit documents for the office? Do you want to
> > play games?)
>
> will never make it for 7.0, and it will require a fourth selection added
> Normal/Developer/Server/"Hold my hand"
>
> > I also had some questions in my head such as "Why do I get enlighment
> > and x others window managers?" Why do I get the "mandrake-doc-de?"
>
> because you didn't slide the "install extras" slider back down to the
> bottom.
>
> Pixel, maybe better to default to no fuzzy packages?
>