From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller) Subject: Re: Linux newbie reactions Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 20:54:27 GMT
It would greatly increase the size of the shell script, but
here's a suggestion for the SLS releases that I'd like to see
implemented, and I think it would help other people as well.
When you do an install, it asks you if you would like to be
prompted to install each package. I thought "hey this is great. I
can save some disk space, by not installing things like
newsreaders, and other things I don't use!'
That idea would've worked if I wasn't propted
Install foo.tpz??? (y/n)
I'd like to see some descriptions of what each package is named
and a brief description of what it is used for. Some thing like:
NN1847.tpz is a USENET newsreader. If you are not a USENET site,
or are not hooked to a network, you probably won't need to
install this.
I feel that something like this would be a really big help to
people that are installing Linux for the first time and might not
have heard of some of these things before.
Keep up the excellent work guys!!
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