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As the latest installment in the recent series of major "D'oh!"s, I realized that the installation profiles I previously proposed for setup could be initially implemented as special packages with the right dependences. This still doesn't absolve us from adding some more sophisticated support for these in setup (e.g., communicating the user prerefence about creating desktop icons to them), but it's a start, and it'll cut down on the "I installed Cygwin, so how come gcc doesn't work" (and the much more annoying "just install everything, it's only 2 gigs" answers to those). 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. Comments and other suggestions welcome. Note that the attached packages are an initial cut at defining those profiles -- I'm bound to have missed something. Also, I'm not proposing to maintain *all* of the profiles, though I could maintain the ones I've attached, as there isn't too much work involved. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
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