> IMO, these packages should be in a special new category (I propose the > name "@Profiles" to make setup put this at the top, but I > don't know if > setup will parse this correctly). I've attached a few sample profile > packages for commonly requested configurations with the corresponding > setup.hints. We could probably concentrate them all in one directory > (thus the '@ ...' lines at the top of the hint files). All > the .tar.bz2 > files are the same empty tarball -- it's the setup.hints that are > important.
Wow. This sounds neat. This would be particularly nice if setup.exe were modified so that on an initial installation, it showed a "profile selection page" first, instead of the package selection page. The profile selection page would let the user choose one or more profiles to install; the packages selected would be a union of the dependencies from the profiles. There could be a check box for "advanced package selection" that the user could select if they wanted to go to the regular package selection page. Re-running setup.exe (for updates, as opposed to an installation) would skip the profile selection page and go straight to the package selection page. -Samrobb
