> Hey, as you may know we're removing all non-apt acquisition methods
> from the boot-floppies, now that apt can handle them all better
> (except perhaps for wierd proxy ftp gateways).
>
> I'm wondering if there's going to be any sort of way that we could
> ease the configurability of apt for newbies. The [A]ccess action from
> dselect triggers one current system, which is inadequate.
>
> Here would be my critical list of features:
>
> * runs in console
> * allows easy selection of CDROMs as well as http, ftp, etc, walking the
> user thru multi-cd scans if necessary
> * could be run from within dselect or not
>
> Here is my very very important list:
>
> * i18n and l10n
> * can autodetect debian official CDs and respond accordingly
> * doesn't select non-free automatically (?!)
>
> Here is my "would be nice list":
>
> * has a list of standard debian mirrors, allows user to select that for
> http and ftp
For framebuffer X11 configuration i'ld like to add a little script, but i have
it not yet. It is very easy (as long as we have no XConfigurator), just ask
for the mice type and dev, HorizSync and VertRefresh.
Bye,
Hartmut
