Op donderdag 10 mei 2012 18:51:45 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: > 2012/5/10 Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]>: > > Op donderdag 10 mei 2012 18:16:11 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: > >> 2012/5/10 Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]>: > >> > Op donderdag 10 mei 2012 13:08:33 schreef Pierre Jarillon: > > [...] > > > >> >> 3- After the installation, it should be great to have a screen > >> >> saying: - you may select the sources of software and for example, > >> >> unselect the CD/DVD, add the non-free, the tainted and their updates > >> >> which are necessary to allow flash and mp4. > >> > > >> > I think it might be nice for a screen there (before updates) to select > >> > cdrom (by default off), network sources (by default on) and maybe a > >> > few subcheckboxes below (nonfree, tainted, backports) which could be > >> > unselected by default. Possibly an advanced window here to have > >> > manual selection of mirror. > >> > >> Not possible for people who do not have network up during installation > >> (lots of wifi users). > > > > imho the network shouldn't need to be up to select this: > > > > this is what you'd get: > > > > [ ] DVD > > [X] Network > > [X] Updates > > [ ] Backports > > [ ] Nonfree > > [ ] Tainted > > Network must be up to download the hdlists. Otherwise you need to > change the whole system, like after reboot after installation check > continuously for network ceonnection (until success) and then download > the hdlists. > You also need a network connection to select a dedicated mirror. > > > there could even be a detection that if network is down, DVD would also > > be selected. > > i see no reason why we should not enable network sources if there's no > > network, shouldn't it fallback to the DVD then? > > This makes no sense because the needed packages of tainted and > non-free are not on the DVD anyway. And as soon as the user reboots he > has to unmark the DVD anyway. > > Of course, everything is possible, but the question is whether it > makes sense to do such major "refactoring". The setting up of sources > is almost automatical once you rebooted your system. A popup of the > update icon will tell you that there is no sources configured yet. If > you answer with "Yes" to the related question, the setup will be done > with mirrorlist. See: newbie-friendly. All you have to do then is to > activate the non-free and tainted repos, which is (as already written) > an "opt-in" task and can't be done by default.
you have a point, i forgot that we have the popup no sources configured. imho maybe we can change this popup to have extra opt-in checkboxes for nonfree and tainted
