Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:13:50 -0500 From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com> To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'David Johnson'" <djohnson@acuson.com>, "'Rick Hamell'" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Subject: RE: Newbie packages Message-ID: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE7605794654@msg04.scana.com>
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I agree, what's the point of having everything divided among 'beginning', 'intermediate', etc. Just label it with one of these tags. I am a newbie, but perhaps not a much as others, how do I know to look at the intermediate list?? Should I read each list? If I have to read each list, then why have some ports listed in each? Another problem is, what constitutes these categories? Is Sendmal advanced? While it might be, it is also a basic service. Is qmail? It is easy to setup but can be rather advanced when you get into some of the advanced features and add-ins. I just don't think breaking up the ports/packages into beginning/intermediate/advanced lists will be that useful. I agree with another user, who said that meta-categories will help a great deal, such as mail transfer agents, web servers, office suites, etc. Someone else mentioned another idea I like a lot. To have links to web sites and How-to sites for the various packages. This would have helped me a lot when setting up qmail for the first time. Another good idea is a cross-link list, so that I can look up all the related packages/ports to qmail, or apache, etc. Would make it real easy to find add-ons, etc. ...Michael... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:24 AM > To: David Johnson > Cc: 'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG' > Subject: Re: Newbie packages > > > > > Under each section there should be two entries for each of > "beginning", > > "intermediate" and "advanced". An individual package can be > in more than > > one section. Packages should have one or two comments by > users, and a > > description. Links to additional information are > encouraged. Ratings on > > the order of "ease of use", "raw power", "geek factor", etc. are a > > possibility. I don't want any overall ratings. > > At this point this almost sounds like it'd be easier to add to > each port's description.... If the user is going to have to > to through the > trouble of reading each of these that'd be easier. I still think as > "suggested" list is the better track, heck even both would be > a good idea. > > Rick > > ******************************************************************* > Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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