On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:32 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Do you think a lightweight debian desktop for newbies would be a good > > topic for a blend? > > I'm quite hesitant about this. Beeing a "newbie" has no clear definition > and thus you will quickly find that you soon will loose the focus inside > your project. There was a Debian Desktop project which is also mentioned > in the Blends docs but it seems that it was a failure. Yes I agree that > there are many things to fix here - but I doubt that it makes much sense > to work on this in the Blends effort. > Hi,
I am lurking from DebianLex :). There was proposed a "legal desktop" metapackage, which had a special focus, but is confusing to me. There are existing desktop tasksels. 1) Can a metapackage uninstall the packages in a superset/parent metapackage/tasksel via post-install scripts, or should it replace the superset/parent for the blend? 2) Where in a metapackage to store the usage guide, e.g., for a "legal desktop"? A lot of this may be taken care of via config scripts for menus (which presumes some desktop tasksel?) and roles, but I think we need some domain-specific guide, something like a /usr/share/doc/<metapackage>? 3) Can we inherit/specialize the Ubuntu desktop into a metapackage? Sorry if these questions (the first 2 are more general than desktops) rehash a lot of stuff for the blends developers, but I am learning to use what you are developing, and would be happy to do some reading, including the source. Regards, Elaine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
