Am Wednesday 28 April 2004 19:25 schrieb Daniel Cardenas - AZ: > In order to get it out real soon the only difference would be a > different set of packages or additional set of packages installed by > default. I would ask the install team, Joey Hess, to ask during > installation if this is for a server or desktop(unstable). (I'm sure > there is a better way of asking that.)
Your intension to customize debian seems right and is shared by many IMHO (see below). I think there are at least three parts to Debian-Desktop: Only one part is providing an easy install path which is done in a great part very nicely by the debian-installer team. For additional customisation (preconfiguration etc.) there is good progress in the concept of Customized Debian Distribution (CDDs) and debian-desktop should really be one of them IMO. See the CDD paper[1] and the debian-custom mailing list[2]. The second part is the over-all tuning and turning of debian packages into somthing that is more discoverable etc. as described on the d-d hompage. This goes very well with the concept of CDDs. The third part is "the swirl" to ensure up-to-date packages updates. (I leave this for sombody else to elaborate). Regards, Christian [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/debian-med/talks/paper-cdd/debian-cdd.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom
