On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Jason Ish wrote: > > I don't see why any of this customized setup can't be done from dselect. > > Just > > The problem with this is that I will have custom packages. My smail will > be different than Debian's default smail, my fvwm would be different, etc.
Why not, rather than have "customized packages", which seems like a lot of duplication of work already done, have "customizer packages" ... an smail-config package that depends on smail.deb and does nothing but allow the user to choose between one of several smail configurations and then installs *just the necessary configuration files* ... and an fvwm-config package that required you already have fvwm (and X, etc) installed, but sets up nice menus and icons, etc based on what's already installed ... You could even have a "Router.deb" package that consists only of dependencies on all the packages needed for a router install and configurations for all of those packages on a router. That way you: 1) provide good, easily-upgradable "default installs" 2) avoid redoing the work of the smail package maintainer Heck, you could even have a "I want Debian to be as Win95-like as possible" package for those migrating to linux. If I'm being overly naive here, let me know. Ever since I've installed debian, though, I've wondered if such a thing was possible ... it'd help new users get things going without killing the happy customization-ability of Debian. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .