Lior Kaplan: > 1. Using tasksel simplifies the installation of many packages through > tasks... It seems that you don't want to let the users select their > tasks by them self (except for several task as desktop and a few > servers). Please let people the option to choose which i18n & l10n > packages they want.
I do want to let people do what they want, but that's not the point. The point is that we want to minimise the number of questions asked during a default installation, to simplify it and make it less confusing for the majority of users. There could of course be a medium-priority screen in tasksel which asked about extra language tasks to install. > Can't you imagine someone wishes to install both German and Arabic > fonts or Turkish with northern fonts? And I don't even mention countries > which have dual official languages (Israel has both Hebrew and Arabic). I could imagine people wanting to do a lot of things which can't be done with tasksel. > 2. "Shouldn't a normal Debian user be able to use at least one package > installation tool?" > If the answer is yes, whey do you use tasksel to install a desktop or a > web server? Can't you do that with apt-get? Well, yes, but these are just a few tasks, there's a lot of language tasks. > 3. Also - I which to have a single language support, but I don't want to > use that language as the interface. Example: I work with English > interface (locale: en_US.UTF-8) but had to install the packages for > Hebrew support (fonts and some common packages). > > That is we (=Hebrew speakers) wished for the Hebrew task, so people > could install all the packages related to Hebrew. But according to your > way of selecting the tasks, I must work with he_IL.UTF8 for get that > task installed. I think what we need to ask ourselves is how many people would benefit from this. If only a tiny fraction of the userbase would need to select different language tasks, then it should probably not be a high-priority question. If it would be useful to a significant proportion (25% according to tasksel's tasks/README), then it could be made a high-priority question. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
