On Mon, 21 May 2007, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 19:33 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
How about making the "complete install" button do exactly that? Then
the people who want the button would have it, so would have no cause
to complain.
As it gets occasionally pointed out. It never did install everything,
and can't. It's unavoidable that some things don't go together.
Yes, I know; you've taken my quote out of context. I meant, make the
"complete install" button act as though the person had right-clicked on
each group and selected all optional packages.
You could label the button "install almost everything," but there'd be
someone who'd bitch that it doesn't install everything, or doesn't
install what they want.
Yes, probably...
One reasonably understandable alternative was to have presettable groups
(install office software, install internet software, etc.). That did
let users install gobs of stuff in a fairly predictable manner.
And in the early days, the feature was undocumented. And once people
figured it out, they went through and selected all listed optional
packages and were happy, except that they wanted one button that would
save them the trouble of going through all the groups.
[...value judgments deleted...]
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
