Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 08, 2002 09:26 PM
The Red Hat approach to package selection, I think, is better than Mandrake's nested-tree listing of available packages.
It's been a while, but the last time I did a Mandrake install as a regular user, not as Expert, you don't get the package tree. And even in Expert mode, you still only get the package tree if you click on "Select Individual Packages." Otherwise you get a selection of categories like Games, Multimedia, Internet Client. Can't remember all the choices. What I like about Mandrake is that I can click the categories I want and then click on select individual packages to prune out the things I don't need. For example, clicking Office Productivity (or whatever it is called) installs things that I want like the various office suites and their dependencies, but also things I don't want like jpilot. I don't have a palm, so I can just uncheck all of them.
Just like in Red Hat 9, where you can also select to install individual packages in either a tree view in categories or in a flat alphabetical view.
A very minor point, but it is worth noting that the difference doesn't really exist.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 08, 2002 09:26 PMThe Red Hat approach to package selection, I think, is better than Mandrake's nested-tree listing of available packages.
It's been a while, but the last time I did a Mandrake install as a regular user, not as Expert, you don't get the package tree. And even in Expert mode, you still only get the package tree if you click on "Select Individual Packages." Otherwise you get a selection of categories like Games, Multimedia, Internet Client. Can't remember all the choices. What I like about Mandrake is that I can click the categories I want and then click on select individual packages to prune out the things I don't need. For example, clicking Office Productivity (or whatever it is called) installs things that I want like the various office suites and their dependencies, but also things I don't want like jpilot. I don't have a palm, so I can just uncheck all of them.
Just like in Red Hat 9, where you can also select to install individual packages in either a tree view in categories or in a flat alphabetical view.
A very minor point, but it is worth noting that the difference doesn't really exist.
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