Andrew George wrote:
(My original message pasted below)
> Umm...if you swap the WWW bit for a console...isn't this what dselect does?
I don't know, I haven't tried debian yet. Of course, every distro would
benefit from something like this.
My real point is that doing what I suggested in the original message
with
a WWW interface:
1) you can build your very own distribution even before your first LINUX
install, and/or during lunch break at work, 10 minutes every day.
All this while your PC is happily running non stop the previous
distro.
2) With this approach the actual install time is minimized, i.e. your PC
remains offline only 1 or 2 hours, depending from the CPU and other
issues. After that, you have almost nothing left to tweak.
Ciao,
Marco
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>
> 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
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