Re: Developer install was Re: Sendmail help


Subject: Re: Developer install was Re: Sendmail help
From: Alan Orth (aorth@mac.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 01:47:18 MDT


On 8/13/01 2:06 PM, "Dan Burcaw" <dburcaw@terraplex.com> wrote:

>
>> This is my biggest complaint with YDL 2.0. The only package (other than
>> 'Everything') that has all the compiler tools is the 'Development
>> Workstation'. This effectively makes all the others useless for everyone
>> except the most casual user. Even a linux newbie is going to need to
>> compile something sooner or later, if not, I'm not sure why they would be
>> using Linux at all.
>>
>> My wish for YDL2.1 is either a 'Base/Minimal install with development
>> tools' or a way to select individual packages like what earlier versions
>> had (and every other linux distro I have seen).
>
> http://bugs.yellowdoglinux.com/
> Please submit a 2.1 "feature request" bug.. :-)
> (select individual packages should be back)
>

I feel your pain! I had to do an "Everything" install to get development
tools AND X11... Now I only have 32 megs of disk space available on my 2 gig
Linux Partition.

Package selection is an essential! :P

-- 
Alan Orth
aorth@mac.com
Macintosh überhacker extraordinaire



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