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+ <B>andr&#233;</B>
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+ <I>Wed Oct 6 23:27:20 CEST 2010</I>
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+<PRE>Hoyt Duff a &#233;crit :
+&gt;<i> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andr&#233;&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">andr55 at laposte.net</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> So far in simplified terms, for the &quot;education&quot; target, we have focus on
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> gov'ts in Germany.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>Here I mean focus in terms of promotion, not in terms of the content of
+the DVD.
+&gt;<i> Do you have a link to any Mandriva docs that detail how the package
+</I>&gt;<i> lists for different &quot;targets&quot; can be created and implemented?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>In short, it would be part of creating the installation DVD.
+
+Mandriva does not implement this function in a manner useful to our
+purposes.
+Let me explain.
+
+There would be a number of install groups, (for want of a better
+expression), all on the same DVD.
+Each group will have a list of packages to be installed, which could be
+individually selected/deselected as desired.
+This is similar to what is already available on a Mandriva install DVD,
+with an important difference : install groups would not be mutually
+exclusive.
+
+In other words, the &quot;education&quot; group (targeting school needs), the
+&quot;young family&quot; group (targeting families with young children), and the
+&quot;home office&quot; group, would probably all contain, for example, a version
+of OpenOffice (be it Go-oo, LibreOffice, or the officiel OpenOffice from
+Oracle/Sun).
+Currently, on a Mandriva installation DVD, each application is in only
+one group.(&quot;Server&quot; being one of their groups.)
+
+Overlapping installation groups allows us to target many uses on the
+same DVD.
+We could consider a target as a usage focus.
+Many users would have more than one focus -- for example, developers
+would want various development tools, as well as maybe &quot;home office&quot; if
+they are an independant consultant.
+There also could be a multi-level tree. A global group for developers,
+with a sub-group for packagers (RPM tools), another for C/C++, another
+for Perl, etc.
+Or for a potentially more common theme, a global group for education,
+with sub-groups for &quot;pre-school/kindergarten&quot;, &quot;elementary&quot;,
+&quot;secondary&quot;, &quot;post-secondary&quot;.
+And these various subgroups would almost necessarily have overlaps.
+The possibilities are only limited by our collective imaginations.
+
+The more I think of this, I see an advantage of allowing the DVD
+installer to access an external group file, (on a usb memory key for
+example), for more flexibility on installation.
+Especially useful to install the same software selection on a large
+number of computers -- without creating a custom installation DVD.
+
+Think of the potential :)
+
+- Andr&#233; (andre999)
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