On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:43:38 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Aug 2012 at 13:59:20 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> > The Debian GNOME team (or one or two of them) may not be over the >> > moon but none of them maintain tasksel. Upstream doesn't count. >> >> But one could expect the tasksel team asks about this change to the >> rest of the involved teams (e.g., boot/cd and the others in charge of >> the DE packages such as GNOME/KDE/XFCE/LXDE...), right? I don't mean to >> sound rude but this seems to be a rather quick decision with little >> debate over it. > > You've already provided a major reference for the discussion which has > taken place on debian-devel. It included controversy (altering the > status quo always does) but it really does come down to size. The first > CD is not big enough to hold GNOME but I assume it will be on the first > DVD. So maybe the decision was quickly made but it didn't come from > nowhere. Well, the idea came from one mind, that's for sure :-) yet still there are many questions floating in the air and not just because of the decision itself but (warning, rant starts here): 1/ The time of the change (when freeze is already in place) 2/ The nature of the change (the installer is a key piece of any OS and it has to be well tested and yes, I run the installer from time to time in a VM to see if there's something missing or that fails) 3/ No feedback (there can be another alternatives to XFCE) > You may sympathise with this response: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/08/msg00066.html He. Yes, that's a nice one coming from Christian :-) > The way the artwork for Wheezy was chosen also had its critics. See the > June archive for debian-desktop. The work is done by people who step > forward and surveys are not necessarily going to make that happen. Choosing the background, banner colours "et al" and defaulting a DE from the installer are not quite the same, I'd say >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k00op3$t9u$1...@dough.gmane.org