Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 16 h 41, the keyboard of Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that some of the most obvious installation profiles of slink stay to be unnecessarily bloated. Giving the size of the current

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-31 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
Might it be possible to include fewer packages in each profile and then present the user with a list of additional packages that might be of interest to them given that they have chosen this particular profile? Something like You have installed the Scientific Workstation profile. The

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
[ redundant emacs versions ] Well, I'll suggest that for potato. It will start a nice flame-war on debian-devel emacs vs. xemacs. Hey, that's just what we need at this stage for *slink*! :-) Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that some of the most

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread John Hasler
Paul Seelig writes: Myself i do prefer XEmacs over all other variants but wouldn't mind if i had to install it later on my own. I prefer emacs, bu I also wouldn't mind if i had to install it later on my own. In fact, I would not mind at all if emacs was optional. IMHO it would be much wiser