Charles Wilson wrote:
Robert Collins wrote:
Again, you're inventing another layer that I maintain will only
confuse things.
I see your point.
[SNIP]
Red Hat Linux's installation (used to, perhaps still does) separate
the concept of Installation Type and Individual Package
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:11:45AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
I just meant that I am extremely unlikely to agree with you
on this one. So, I won't be willing to let setup grow in this
direction. I would not blame you if you felt that your
creativity was being hampered.
If the decision
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:25 AM
I'm actually in the position of being a pretty normal cygwin
user right now. No time, just amazingly good ideas. I'll
try to generate the appropriate resentment if
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:33:16AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
I'm actually in the position of being a pretty normal cygwin
user right now. No time, just amazingly good ideas. I'll
try to generate the appropriate resentment if no one acts on
my ideas in the next day or so.
Oh... well I
On Friday 22 Mar 02, Christopher Faylor writes:
Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not
making Base the default installation, defaulting to something like
Standard instead.
Standard would include things like:
base +
bzip2
bash
clear
tcsh
less
vim
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:09:16PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote:
On Friday 22 Mar 02, Christopher Faylor writes:
Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not
making Base the default installation, defaulting to something like
Standard instead.
Standard would
Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not
making Base the default installation, defaulting to something like
Standard instead.
Standard would include things like:
base +
bzip2
bash
clear
tcsh
less
vim
telnet
ssh
cygrunsrv
mutt
perl?
python?
shutdown?
ssmtp
unzip
zip
Has my vote.
Earnie.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not
making Base the default installation, defaulting to something like
Standard instead.
Standard would include things like:
base +
bzip2
bash
clear
tcsh
less
vim
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Keeping base, adding standard.
Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should
consider not making Base the default
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:10 AM
The rationale is that people can still select a minimal
install with base but still choose a usable setup with Standard.
How does this sound?
Oh, and the concept of
The rationale is that people can still select a minimal
install with base but still choose a usable setup with Standard.
How does this sound?
That sounds great to me as long as minimal is still easy to get.
The thing that frustrated me most about the old setup was that as a
dial-up user I
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 4:21 PM
This comes back to what I said some time ago - that categories are
necessary but not sufficient to provide a good user experience.
Yadda, yadda. I've said it all
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:30:23PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
You're very unhappy with overloading categories while this is exactly
what I had envisioned when I suggested them. And, I strongly disagree
with the above way of dealing with things.
Why? (Not trying to be dificult here).
Again,
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:00 PM
I'm in a rush, so I'll read the rest later...
The one missing thing however, is that I'd like setup.exe to
auto-select the Standard package. There's no automatic way
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