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Re: please do not force aptitude



On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr):
> 
> > I guess we have more than 1% of non-broadband users left, where the situation
> > is not fine. All those who want somekind of X support, without wanting to
> > install all of gnome and all of KDE and openoffice, and pass days downloading
> > over their slow modem link. Not to count those who have not enough disk space
> > for all of the above, but which would still like to have a basic X install,
> > and are not power users.
> 
> 
> Well, those are probably good candidates for CD installs rather than
> using the netinst or businesscard CD's.....

So they get to download a bunch of CD isos over their analog modem in order to
install :)

Well, i guess not, but i suppose the disk space problem is still there. I at
least cannot do tests of the desktop task in my swap partition anymore :/

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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