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RE: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:59:58 +0100
- Subject: RE: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages
on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:11 AM cxxxxx-axxx-owner@xxxxxx.com wrote:
(Hmm, outlook quotefix is better than nothing, but optimal)
<SNIP>
>> Therefore I'd like to propose an all uppercase name for this
>> category.
>>
>> DEFAULT-PROFILES
Hmm... "default" has little to do with packages imho, or?
>> USER-PROFILES
"USER" indicates something personal... :-p
John Morison wrote: (manual fix)
> +1 on the caps...
>
> How about
>
> FUNCTIONAL-[GROUPS|PROFILES]
> USEFUL-[GROUPS|PROFILES]
> PRESELECTED-[GROUPS|PROFILES|PACKAGES]
More wording ideas: SELECTION, CHOICE, PRESET, ORIENTATION
"predefined package choice" ?
"Cygwin_use-orientation-presets"?
"Cygwin-use-presets" ?
... with better wording.
AFTERTHOUGHT: The commandline "automatic install" possibilities need to be
considered before adding GUI-stuff.
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/H