BaseSeed

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:51:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:41:57PM +0800, John wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > >Oh, there's also lftp in base, which is even better if what you want is to
> > >download:
> > 
> > As far back as when I used OS/2, I have been using lynx in scripts. With 
> > it, I can get a list of URIs, massage the list in some way, make 
> > selections and selectively download stuff.
> 
> The Base and Desktop lists don't have to be all things to all people.
> The reason we have the Supported list (and lynx is in Supported) is so
> that if you have particular requirements then you can easily go and get
> them there.

Exactly.  If we installed everything which had some use to someone, we would
be installing, well, everything.

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 - mdz