On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:41:13 +0200, Marco Fioretti said: > IMHO, it would be wonderful to do it on the www site BEFORE > installing, something like this: > > > 1) You get the package list from the site, and study > it at your leisure, figuring out what you really > need > > 2) On the WWW site, maybe in several sessions, you > select the packages you choose, and > > 3) some CGI interface to RPM checks the dependencies > saying "you should either add this or take that out". > It shoud also tell you exactly how much HD space will > be needed. > > Repeat steps 2 and 3 as many times as needed, maybe going back > to the site the day after, until all dependencies are sorted > out. > > 4) When the list is clean, it should be possible to > save it on a floppy, so that > > 5) When you actually install, and must select packages > you can just put the floppy in, and the installation > program will install all and only those packages. > (this is going to be though on laptops not having > CDROm and FLOPPY useable together. Ah, well) > > Last but not least, all this should be possible also after > installation. By this I mean that one installs, figures out > in some weeks or months what he actually needs, and then, with > the list said above, reconfigures everything with one keystroke, > not running kpackage/rpm N times..... > > > Final note on point 2):at least in the first selection, one should > have to select ONLY the **applications** (apache,window maker, > perl, emacs...) not all the libraries they need, of which most people > know nothing and care even less as long as the thing works. > > Just my two cents, > > > > Marco Fioretti Umm...if you swap the WWW bit for a console...isn't this what dselect does? which brings me to something I've always been curious about...is it problems with the RPM format that stops things like dselect and apt being implemented on Mandrake? OK I admit it...sometimes I wonder what a .deb based Mandrake would be like :) Andrew (I know...I'm waffling...its been a bad day)
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