* Anthony Towns | On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:56:21PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Anthony Towns | > | On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: | > | > Because I'd like to Debian be installable with much fewer questions, | > | Do you realise what that means? It means: I want everyone to end up with | > | the same system. | > Actually not. [...] | > This will be possible in d-i, by choosing that you only want to see | > questions with high or critical priority. | | However everyone that does this will end up with the same system.
Yup, that's what we call base. | Whereas ideally, what you want is a way of easily including non-free, | or setting up a wiki server, or otherwise indicating that you want some | common variant of a Debian system without an undue amount of effort. Base will still be the same, or are you talking about making base more flexible as well? | > And if that's not enough, customizing a floppy | > set with even more predefined answers shouldn't be that hard. | | That's possible, and it's what Knoppix and PGI and so forth are | effectively doing. It doesn't really benefit the people who grab a | Debian CD, or poke through the Debian website, and want to install | Debian, though. Nothing is stopping us from doing what they do -- say -desktop want their own custom installer: go ahead, do that. d-i is a framework where -boot provides a set of building block which is (or will be) roughly equivalent to what b-f provides, initially. I hope others will build on and extend the framework. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-