Re: configure

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

Kasper Peeters <K.Peeters@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

| > Not automatic you have to specify all the packages you want to install
| > and also download them.
| 
| Can RPM still not do this? Debian sure can.

Can debian download files?

| That's pointless, since it divides them up according to the wrong
| scheme. You could envisage a split in

Yes, it was just an example :)
 
|   mnemonic-core
| 
| and
| 
|   mnemonic-lib-tcpconnection, mnemonic-lib-url,
|   mnemonic-oil-httphander, mnemonic-lib-ftphandler
| 
| and
| 
|   mnemonic-lib-layout, mnemonic-lib-gtklayout, 
|   mnemonic-lib-gtkclient
| 
| as that at least keeps functionality grouped. But I also think that
| this is wrong and ignoring the modular structure.

I know that, but does a newbie who does not even know what TCP/IP is ?

But what I'm saying is that I want both worlds :-)

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