On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 18:26 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > "Everything" doesn't mean everything > available, it means everything someone familiar with the whole distro > would expect to be useful or the best of several choices. The point is > that someone assembling the distribution is in a much better position to > make this selection than someone just doing the install. > Bear in mind that you are speaking about 3,000,000 +/- folks in countries all over the world. From PhD's to Gradeschoolers or some with little or no formal education at all. I am a programmer. I want all the programming utilities and libraries that I like and use, but I am also interested in historical languages. Would you want emacs, eclipse, the developers libraries, KICad, Gscheme, and various mathematical libraries? Or perhaps the stuff I like related to navigation, GPS software, tide tables, Navigation tables, and current wind velocities in Southern California. Also GnuCash, Nedit customized for PBasic, and AI software tools, forth, fortran, C, C++, COBOL, Forth, PASCAL, ADA, Tcl and Tk, and other tools like that. Maybe my interests in other forms (which I haven't downloaded yet) chemistry, NanoTechnology, Robotics control algorithms, Stereo vision algorithms, Visual cue software, and other esoteric stuff I have some interests in. Bear in mind that many of these come with tutorials, manuals, and the AI and vision stuff have maps that are often many megabytes each, with hundreds making up a training set. What woudl you define as "Everything", and what mechanisms would you recommend for the rest of us? I forgot VR and 3d software. Regards, Les H
