On Wednesday 21 November 2001 04:38, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some things I would like to see in the installer... > > > > 1) When you select "development" as an option, all devel packages get > > installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back > > and find devel packages later on when you are trying to get a piece of > > code to build. > > No, development gives a few base development packages such as autoconf, > automake, gcc, binutils, plus additional development packages for each > group you selected.
I said "should". There needs to be some sort of option that will automatically install development packages as part of the install. Finding out that you missed one is a real pain when you are in the middle of a compile. (Or dealing with users who have a low frustration level.) > > 2) Something to configure multiple monitors/cards in X. (Also a way to > > go back and reconfigure a monitor when you buy a new one because the old > > one let out the magic smoke.) > > Via Xinerama or not you may configure two monitors when you have two cards > or you have one card with dual head. This was introduced in 8.0 or 8.1, > not sure. I am speaking of a graphical Xinerama config option at install. I can do this by hand, but I have been dealing with users who have never mucked with an XF86Config-4 file in their life. I have a Matrox G400 Max card with dual heads. I have set them up before. Users who have similar set ups with Windows are probably wondering why Linux does not set things up to see the second monitor. > > 3) If SMP is detected, don't assume that it is a 686. (The > > firewall-on-a-disc does this. My dual Pentium Pro 200 was not amused.) > > Uh? SMP means using kernel-smp, which is a i586 kernel AFAIK. Well then it locked up for some other reason. I will have to investigate further when I have time. > > 4) On upgrade, remove previous catalog entries in the Mandrake updater. > > (So it does not show versions from 2+ versions, just the current one.) If > > you don't remove them, label them better in the catalog listing so they > > can be removed later. > > > > 5) On upgrade, find a way to make the upgrade complete in less than 12 > > hours! (This one has gotten on my nerves. The last upgrade from 8.0 to > > 8.1 went to poorly, I did a scratch-and-burn on the system to fix it.) > > We've put some sleep everywhere, on purpose :-)). Well, since the upgrade leaves the system in a fairly buggy state, few people try it more than once. It should not take that long. I will need to look at that section of code I guess...
