[2538] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: comment and questions about the current 'comps' file for 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Mon Feb 8 23:40:14 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:39:59 -0500
To: warlord@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <sjm90e8d2hv.fsf@datkins.ihtfp.org> (message from Derek Atkins on
08 Feb 1999 16:11:56 -0500)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
I think we should avoid the "Workstation" and "Server" configurations,
since they repartition and reformat the entire drive. The Athena
install process, for now, should be based on the Custom install.
As Derek mentioned, there are about six or seven packages that I
removed from sets other than Workstation. I stand by the decision to
remove those packages from the Athena install.
However, I don't recall trying to customize the Workstation set for
Athena, so any changes that I made to it should be considered
accidental. If I removed a package from Workstation, it does not mean
that I think the package should not in the Athena installation, and if
I left a package in Workstation, it does not mean that I think the
package should be in the Athena installation.
I'll go undo any changes to the Workstation set in comps.athena.
It might be nice to eventually support a "Workstation" sort of
hassle-free installation, after we've given some though to how the
Athena packages should affect the partitioning and the documentation
and stuff.
Derek wrote:
In particular, I believe we should install the compiler (C
Development) and arguably development libraries and X Devel.
Fine by me. (Not installing them by default would also be fine by me.
I explicitly have no opinion about it.)
Sal.
