[plug] RE: plug RedHat 5.1

[John Summerfield]

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 
> > Something else I'm certain of: the RedHat description of the individual
> > packages is inadequate for the beginner. By way of example:
> <description snipped>
> I am sure there is more information available than that?
> Dependencies, certainly, but shouldn't it also have a priority?
> IMHO, if a package has a priority (i.e. required, important, standard,
> optional) and clear dependencies, that is all the newbie needs to know.
> I don't know of a system that gives more, anyway.

Cetainly there are (well, I expect there are) dependencies. However, those
don't help a novice whether the package is useful.

How many home users install 
xntp
apache
squid
fetchmail
procmail
BIND
iBCS
spider
tftp

How many home users SHOULD install all of these?


(I have to say it's getting hard to remember those packages that had me
completely bamboozled the first time I installed Linux.)


Cheers
John Summerfield
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