On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > In a general note, it seems to me that these 'profiles' are the most visible > > part of the installation system [once you get beyond the usual > > difficulties]. > > They need some work but promise to be one of the most appealing aspects of a > > Debian install. I know I always look forward to choosing a profile when I'm > > re-installing Debian. :) > > There was talk of making them a package and reworking them so you could > change profiles after installing. I'm not sure what came of this, but it > could be a big boost to the debugging and general advancement of this > tool. > > > I propose that Dselect should have an extra step which confirms that all > > packages in some profile are present. I envision that you can choose > > this extra option and what it will do for you is to check whether or not > > your > > system as currently configured lacks anything that is required for some > > type of functionality. > > This is the "select" step. As things are merged into apt, hopefully this > will be more obvious or less needed. The instructions to skip this step > are just wrong in my opinion.
IMHO, many of the predefined profiles are way too bloated! I've only done a few new installs since they were added, but after the first one (followed by a big purge of unwanted packages) I have used the "select" option in dselect to see which packages I need to remove. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
