> At the moment, we offer three ways of choosing packages:
>
> 1) you trust us to give you a nice set of packages.
> 2) step 1: you tell the installer what kind of packages you are
> interested in, and trust us that we know which packages
> go in which group
> step 2: by moving a slider left-right, you decide how many MB
> of packages you really want, and trust us to give you only "the
> best of" if you move the slider to the left.
> 3) you want to choose the packages individually
>
> I beleive that 1 and 2 are fine, but 3 is a kind of stupid with 1000+
> packages. This is a major problem, but at the moment noone knows how to
> improve the process - we are completely open for sugestions here.
>
i got an idea. the best way to do this, would be to have a couple of sets of
"templates" for installation. e.g. "typical setup" "customs etup" "server
setup" "workstation setup", etc, blah blah blah.
after that, the user can choose the one that best matches his use of this
installation, and be given the chance to modify that "template" of packages.
e.g. "server" may have apache and wu-ftpd checked but the user only wants
wu-ftpd, so the user should be allowed soemwhere to uncheck wu-ftpd. of
course the full list of packages should still be given for better
customization ... but they should be put into appropriate gruops, in a "one
page per group (aka SuSE)" way, instead of the "tree view" like the RH 6
installer.
cu,
Geoff
