[Rule-list] Ideas about package selection

[hairylarry at deltaboogie.com]

Hi,

We need a menu that installs with rule and installs in user space 
when users are created. This menu needs to be easy to use and 
easy to modify. 

I prefer shell scripts. In dos I used batch files. Other suggestions are 
welcome. Something already internationalised would be good.

I suggest two menus. Think text/graphics or minimum_config/16M 
config. Call them "text only menu" and "text and graphics menu" .

Say we can install rule on an 8 Meg 486. Then all apps in the text 
only menu should be text and should be tested to perform 
adequately on that type of system. The menus will have to run well 
on this system too.

However even systems with pentiums and 16 Meg of ram or more will 
benefit from a rule install. These systems will run a graphical browser 
and other more powerful apps. Rule should install these programs 
and make them available on another menu. This is the text and 
graphics menu. Even on these systems text apps will be preferred for 
some applications.

Both menus should be installed on every machine. For instance, I 
might type m1 and get the text only menu, m2 and get the text and 
graphics menu.  Some programs will probably be on both menus.

Users of high powered machines may prefer some selections from 
the text only menu. Users should be easily able to customize or 
create new menus.

I also suggest that we list apps that have been tested to run well on 
a rule system even if those apps are not selected as part of the 
install. Otherwise users will be picking from the red hat rpms many of 
which will no way run well even on a 16M system. 

What do you think?

Thanks,

Hairy Larry

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