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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:36:10 -0600 (CST)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'must have' packages on first CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903291734030.20931-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990330084028.52258@welearn.com.au>

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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Sue Blake wrote:

# For another purpose, I asked for the top ten packages on the -newbies
# list last year. If you can be bothered checking for it in the archives,
# you'll get a pretty good idea of what ports the super-green people will
# drive us silly over if they can't find and install them easily.
# 
# IIRC it boiled down to about 15 that most new people expected to have
# available right from the start, or soon thereafter. From these 15
# it would be sensible to discard the nice toys if necessary and ensure
# that the rest are all present on the first CD.

Just found it and amazingly enough there was only one that
wasn't in both lists. :)

# 
# -- 
# 
# Regards,
#         -*Sue*-



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