On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:49:53PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > FWIW, this is exactly the way Mandrake does this and it's quite > > successful for new users... > > > > Personally I would be in favour of such an approach. > > As already mentioned, the main problem is certainly that we all did > not pay enough attention to this tasksel thing during the last months, > while we still had the opportunity of "playing" with it.
Ah, no, there where a bunch of people who didn't like it, especially as it started breaking on all sides when kde was uninstallable on non-mainstream arches, and we were told that this was the right true way. Please don't go into revisionism at this time. I agree that it may be too late for this, altough maybe not, but we choose this approach in full knowledge. > Our now famous "Bob User" will for sure never use the method suggested > by Joey for choosing tasks. And, yes, I've already hearde about some > Bob Users complaining about the desktop tasks installing too much > stuff (my own son comes first as he first reserved only about 1.5GB > for his first Debian install....and then filled his hard disk with the > desktop task...:-))). Not to count people liking to do test-installs in 512MB ex-swap partitions :) > The Simple/KDE/Gnome approach seems reasonable to me as well. > > However, for this to happen, we need to help Joey with tasksel. He did > nearly all the job on this in the last 12/18 months... Yes, agreed on this. That said, his insitence that this was the right way in the past didn't encourage volunteers, i would guess. > So, branching it is probably the first thing to do (there used to be a > "newtasksel" thing somewhere at some time, IIRC) so that "breaking" it > has less consequences. Yep. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
