Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <[email protected]>
wrote:
But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and
could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering
what's required and what's not to get a desktop going.
Therefore, I always liked the choice for X in sysinstall: It
basically installed all the components to get X up and running.
No big trouble getting the correct xorg-driver-* packages,
installing and removing them, the xorg-input-* packages with
the same story...
There is an X.org meta-package that installs everything though. It is
just a problem with the beginner not knowing what to select. This can be
tackled in two ways IMO, first is by creating a "First time FreeBSD
desktop installer" type article, second would be adding a menu choice in
sysinstall "Install a standard X desktop {GNOME,KDE}". I must admit I
much prefer the first solution.
Agree with most of the above except I think an X option and a separate
desktop option in sysinstall is better - not everyone who wants X also
wants gnome or kde. Oh wait that's how it used to be :)
The problem with an article is how to view it during an install and how
to know it is even there.
Chris
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