On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:51 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: > Havoc Pennington wrote: > > My suggestion is that we have default package sets for the common use > > cases (mail server, desktop, java dev workstation, etc.) and their union > > is Core. Is that broken? > > i don't think it's broken at all. debian does something similar in that it > groups packages into 'tasks', and you can decide at install time which tasks you > want to install (database server, python development, documentation tools, X, > workstation, etc.) > > something similar might work for fc5, but imo fc5 need not comprise the entire > union of all the tasks. just thinking out loud here... How is this any different than the way comps handles arbitrary grouping right now? -sv
