Hello,
I think this is an excellent idea. At first, I
wouldn't be a contributor, but one that could really
use this. As others have noted, I completely stink at
package selection! This would be a great way for
people such as myself to get off to a good starting
point, and being able to contribute later down the
line.
Thanks, good idea, and I hope it goes through.
Ron
--- "S.Toms"
I was wondering if anyone thought of creating .sel files for the various types of installs and versions. Some sort of file archive of various types of installs for networks, workstations with X, workstations without X, routers, fileservers, mailservers, ftp servers, http servers, etc.. so that the .sel files only contain what is necessary to create the various types of systems I mentioned. I think that would be a meaningful project that many of us could contribute to, maybe have a seperate directory for each version in the ftp.suse.com server, ie:
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.3/sel/ ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.4/sel/ ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.0/sel/
kinda like that. At one point I started doing something similar myself, following the SuSE dependencies. So I have various sel files for a samba/mail server, a firewall and workstations. But how valuable would somethng like this be to other SuSE users?? For those of you who don't know what the .sel files are, these are files that contain listings of all packages to be installed depending on the system you would like to have installed. Think back to when you first installed SuSE, you had the options for a KDE system, Gnome system, network system, base install, etc..
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