[H-GEN] Computing without GUI

[Jason Henry Parker]

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Darrin Mison <staeci at yahoo.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:40:26PM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> > Yeah, never mind I just installed X, perl, vim, java, netscape pcmcia
> > services, ppp and emacs on a Debian GNU/Linux box *today* in less than
> > 600MB.  What am I talking about?
> The question is how many email clients,

One, just as many as I asked for.  (It probably also installed
/bin/mail, but that's a utility, not a mail user agent!)

> window managers,

One, exactly what I told it to do.

> desktop gui's

One.

> and terminal emulators did it install?

Two, just as many as I asked for.

Such is the advantage of using a distribution that has more than any
of the other distributions at all.  Almost everything is optional, and
nothing has to be installed outside the packaging system.

> I think most distro packagers are a bit silly in this department.

Well, quite frankly anyone who can't manage to get a working package
manager to install as many of those things as needed, and no more,
has a problem that needs to be fixed, and it may well not be
software-related.

jason
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