[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

Dale Huckeby spock at evansville.net
Tue Oct 26 16:04:59 CEST 2010


>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> 2010/10/26 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
>
>> Then, in order to accelerate the installation for the people who do not
>> select package one by one at install time ( that's IMHO the common use
>> case of drakx ), part of the confort of those that does was sacrified,
>> mainly because this feature is aimed to advanced users more than new
>> users discovering Linux ( who would and should take the easiest road of
>> keeping default selection ).
>
> Agreed. This is an explanation and a reason I can follow :) I go to
> individual selection each time I install to remove packages like most
> games and all the fax packages and some more, and to add some packages
> which are not marked by standard. But that's me, and I have developed
> a habit there :)

It's a reason I can follow, too. I have the exact same habit, by the
way. I get rid of a lot of crap I don't want, and I add stuff that I do
want or am curious about.

Dale Huckeby


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