connecting power users to their tools

[Rainer M Krug]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Robert Potter <rpotter at zoncko.com> wrote:
> It will be nice if power users have a trusted location to look up and find
> tools that assist them.  But they still will have to invest the time to find
> and install those tools.
> Ubuntu currently offers the option to install multi-media package during
> install and with an internet connection downloads updates in the back
> ground.  The server edition allows the user to select packages to be
> installed during installation.  So, as we identify key tools such as Ubuntu
> Tweak, perhaps Canonical could offer a back ground download/install option
> for a few of these key tools.  For those of us that just want our system to
> work but still would like the power & tools to tweak, I think it would be
> nice to simply request the tools during install.
> Not sure how practical or desired it is by others, but just a thought I had.

Nice thought, but then there might be other groups of users who would
like to have a "gamer" option and so on. I do not think that this is a
feasible approach without opening a can of worms.

I would rather suggest to create a meta package, which then installs
these tools - power users should not have a problem with typing

sudo apt-get install power-user-tools

which then would download and install a suite of selected packages.

Cheers,

Rainer

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