Re: [Cooker] [Holy Minimal Install] Why "Linux sucks"...

[Harry]

On 8/6/01 6:07 PM, "Thierry Vignaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> First, let me say that having to untick all the boxes to get the "Holy
>> Minimal
>> Install" is inefficient, not to say ridiculous.
> 
> unselect XFree86-libs and you'll end in only ~90-100Mb of packages to install
> :-)

That's nice, and I'm sure that the newbies that are gifted with the power of
prediction and mind-reading will have no trouble figuring this out.

Since as far back as I can recall, there have been regular echoes of
requests for the options of 'select all' (in fact, commonly still pointed
out as a flaw in reviews) and 'minimum install'.

Neither of these options require rcoket science to implement, yeat,
steadfastedly, Mandrake refuses to add these simple options.

Why?

(While at the same time weighting down the installations with cutting edge,
but largely unnecessary apps, and leaving out relatively useful and
established files (like the rather obscure 'traceroute').

Sometimes I really wonder.

Harry