quick clarification for now, hopefully would find time for more later) On Wed, 06 Apr 2016, Ole Streicher wrote: > > Are you aiming to provide that level of granularity within debian > > installer? if so -- that would be cool.
> Sure, I am also unstatisfied with the current state. There is currently > no way to select individual packages during the installation and also > not with tasksel, and I would guess that this will stay so for Debian > Stretch. However, once we have our "foot in the door" (that's probably a > "False Friend" in english), we have a good reason and pressure to get > something. We just need volunteers ;-) > But let's be pragmatic here. The proposed solution is not ideal, but it > is a step forward, and something realistic. agree. thus +100 ;) > > I am not sure what such a default blend should carry really... how > > could I decide for a lab to use e.g. AFNI vs FSL vs [...] > Neurodebian already offers a bootable image, and a default virtual > machine -- so you already *have* some idea of a default installation. we had some live cd attempt in the past but didn't push it forward. thus the only bootable image is the VM, which is just a stock debian stable + neurodebian repo enabled + neurodebian-desktop package for custom appearance (+ some NeuroDebian menu with pre-selected apps which get installed if user clicks on them) + "welcome wizard" which at the end pretty much provides few of those 'tasks' options. But the point is that nothing neurosciency in a default installation. that automatic installation idea though -- it might be actually a cute one to be adopted for -tasks packages, which could provide those ad-hoc .desktop files within a dedicated Blend submenu and plugs for all user-executable tools/packages linked there. Example: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/neurodebian.git/tree/xdg/desktop/neurodebian-psychopy.desktop which uses this tool http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/neurodebian.git/tree/tools/nd-autoinstall but that is orthogonal to your current effort Ole, so sorry for derailing. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik