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I know of something used in Debian GNU+Linux that sounds is somewhat (it
is a little of a stretch) what you are talking about (called
taskselect). If lets you decide what you want to do with the computer,
like being a web server or a dial-up server. Is that more of what you
would want?

Johan Glimming wrote:
> Dear Fink Developers,
> 
> I think it is far too tedious to manually select all packages  everytime
> fink. Also, I prefer installings this in one go, rather  than
> continously finding a package that I may need (which could  happen at a
> bad occasions, e.g. when Internet it is not availabe,  while at a
> conference, in a train...).
> 
> Therefore a suggestion: Why not add a virtual package called "stable-
> all" or just "stable-base" or similar that installs ALL fink  packages.
> I suggest having several virtual packages in fact:
> 
>  - stable-minimal
>  - stable-medium-with-x11
>  - stable-medium-without-x11
>  - stable-medium-gnome
>  - stable-medium-kde
>  - stable-maximal
> 
> etc. I myself would do a nightly "fink install stable-maximal" once  and
> for all.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Johan Glimming

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