On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:54:51AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2004.11.07.0142 +0100]: > > Tasksel is frozen. The current situation is fine except for a 1% > > of users who happen to need to be expert debian users anyway, and > > who can work around it.<lay-out-changed/> > > > > I'm trying to release sarge, not make it perfect. Understood. > I concur, but I would claim that the percentage is larger by factors > than the 1% you quote. > > But especially new users prefer not to be dumped into aptitude with > its 10'000 packages before even getting a chance to log in and get > a bit of a feel for their new Debian system. In the courses > I taught, people were always very grateful when I showed them the > philosophy behind a minimal install and an install-on-demand policy > afterwards. > > I just find it very sad that sarge does not continue along the > lines. I second that. To get a minimal system, I use this trick: * select nothing in tasksel . you get forced into the ugly[1] looking aptitude * quit aptitude, it is the first thing you do * confirm the quit (aptitude is probably dissapointed that it isn't used) . debian-installer continues[2] Geert Stappers [1] none debconf frontend [2] with the "familar" frontend.
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