RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:

> on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:11 AM cxxxxx-axxx-owner@xxxxxx.com wrote:
>
> >> Therefore I'd like to propose an all uppercase name for this
> >> category.
> >>
> >>   DEFAULT-PROFILES
>  Hmm... "default" has little to do with packages imho, or?
>
> >>   USER-PROFILES
>  "USER" indicates something personal... :-p
>
> John Morison wrote: (manual fix)
> > +1 on the caps...
> >
> > How about
> >
> > FUNCTIONAL-[GROUPS|PROFILES]
> > USEFUL-[GROUPS|PROFILES]
> > PRESELECTED-[GROUPS|PROFILES|PACKAGES]
>
> More wording ideas: SELECTION, CHOICE, PRESET, ORIENTATION
>
> "predefined package choice" ?
> "Cygwin_use-orientation-presets"?
> "Cygwin-use-presets" ?
> ... with better wording.

How about just .INSTALLATION-PROFILES?  Why have more than one category
here?

> AFTERTHOUGHT: The commandline "automatic install" possibilities need to be
> considered before adding GUI-stuff.

Adding "GUI-stuff" is easy.  Decoupling installation from GUI to allow
command line "automatic install" is hard.
	Igor
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