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Re: Prefab Program Selections (was: RE: Regrouping on "installation profile" idea)


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:51:24AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:43:11PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >"Prefab Program Selections"
> >
> >?  It still has that Unix ugly to it, but it actually says what it means and
> >means what it says, so everybody wins.
> 
> I like "selections" but I don't like "prefab".  And, right now, I think that
> Igor was telling me that you can't do something like:
> 
> Prefab Program Selections
>   C Development
>   X Desktop
>   ...
> 
> Because setup.exe can't handle that.
> 
> So, it would have to be:
> 
> C Development Prefab Program Selection
> X Desktop Prefab Program Selection
> ...
> 
> which is a little wordy.
> 
> I do think we want to convey that these are optional easy-to-use selections
> which will pull in all of the programs required for a standard "use case"
> (as they like to say where I work).
> 
> How about "standard selection"?
> 
> C Development Standard Selection
> X Desktop Standard Selection
> ...
> 
> Bleah.  I don't know.  Maybe it just can't be properly conveyed without
> all sorts of flashy gui balloons and help.
> 

How about 'Bundle' ?


Tim.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
-- Winston Churchill


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