[2548] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: comment and questions about the current 'comps' file for 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Feb 9 19:13:54 1999
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Feb 1999 19:13:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: Erik Nygren's message of Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:56:24 EST
Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > we want to have installed by default. I was wondering if we should
> > remove the 'lpr' package more thoroughly? I don't know how much it
> > conflicts with athena-lpr, in particular in the Printer Support
> > component.
>
> We want to have local printer support available
> and easy to set up using printtool. For this,
> the local lpr stuff is possibly crucial.
> I could be wrong, but it's worth testing.
Can someone test if printtool will work with the athena-lpr package?
It would be nice if we can just replace lpr with athena-lpr in all
cases.
> > Also, I was wondering if we should add a 'java' component to make it
> > easier to install kaffe. Comments? I was also wondering if we should
> > make sure that every package is in at least one component. Currently
> > that is not the case.
>
> Aieee! Please, please, please don't install kaffe, java, or guavac
> by default. People can use Java out of the Java locker. I spent
> many hours last Spring helping people remove those packages from
> their Linux systems as they randomly interferred with stuff
> in the Java locker and made it a huge pain for the 6.170 courseware
> to work properly...
Too late -- I already removed java from the comps files ;) Don't
worry.
> Erik
-derek
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