Re: New user ...opinion.

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On Sat, 22 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote:

> Very true. The one thing that GNOME needs more than anything right now, I
> think, is a program which will automate its installation - allow the user
> to select what portions of GNOME he/she wants, then download and install
> all the necessary packages for it (and all several billion libraries
> required) and fix up the .xinitrc file. This should be usable with most or
> all of the major distros. With this, GNOME would truly beat Windows in
> every area (except perhaps available software, and we're working on that).

This is strictly the area of distribution.  If you would like to be able
to pick and choose what packages are installed have a look at the Debian
distribution and have a look at Gnome-apt.