joe@oregon.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver) (09/25/89)
I notice that TeX and Common Lisp both came un-installed by default... Is this due to the space requirements, or is it designed to allow more convenient customization by the end user or a little bit of both? If the user-installation is intended to facilitate user customization, that's fine, but if the user-installation is taking place because of space constraints it would sure be nice to see a summary of installed sizes for all uninstalled applications so you can decide what'd fit on a 330M (or on an OD'd system). Now I realize that a lot of these things depend on how font-happy you get in TeX and so on, but even a ball-park figure for each application would be good (TeX does provide a nice estimate of 19 megabytes, incidentally). Not that this is a real big deal, but the user-installed approach seems a change from the 0.9 ready-to-go approach, and I think it is important to have at least ballpark space requirement info for EACH application if space is the driving reason behind requiring the user to explicitly install certain applications. It also would have been nice simply to have been asked, as part of the installation process, "Do you want to install CL? Do you want to install TeX?"