On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> You just have to pick who you want to appeal to the most, and that's what
> they did.

  Well, darn it, I want the best of all possible worlds for everybody in
everything.  Is that too much to ask?  ;-)

>>> Would I like to see a "base install" option?  Yeah, I would.
>> 
>>   AOL! 
> 
> I'm pretty sure you're not talking about America On Line here, but I don't
> get the acronym...

  "AOL!" expands to "Me too!".  See:

        http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/AOL!.html

>  And many of the priorities were stupid... i.e. groff was marked as
> "recommended" I believe.  Never mind that you need it to format man pages
> and other documentation...  :)

  My favorite Slackware bug was when the installer in... Slackware 96, I
believe... tried to write the bootloader to the CD-ROM drive.  :-)

> Nothing is more important that xboing!!!  Blasphemer!

  Heh heh.  :-)

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