Bug#421337: Carefull!! desktop installation.

[Robert <robmitchell@hughes.net>]

Thank you for your brilliant observations!! Let me clarify what YOU do 
not seem to understand:

1) The fact that the desktop GUI is chosen by the development team and 
NOT the installer DURING the installation process IS a bug. Bug, as in 
programming or scripting ERROR.

2) The installer/user can NOT read the fucking installation guide when 
you do NOT yet have an operating system.

3) If the installer uses the example in the initial help page (F4) 
logically: tasks="dns-server, file-server, kde-desktop, standard"    The 
installer gets a KDE GUI with Gnome components and NO server services. 
This too seems to be a bug, however, I can workaround it.

Fortunately for me, your colleagues are more tolerant of converts to the 
Debian way of thinking.

Have a nice day,
Robert Mitchell



Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:30, Geert Stappers wrote:
>   
> > >  My problem with the installation of etch (v. 4.0.0) is that it
> > > automatically installs Gnome as the default desktop GUI. I have
> > > installed etch twice, the second time, carefully noting choices. The
> > > installer program/script NEVER asks the user which of the 4 popular
> > > desktops (or GUI) is wanted; Gnome, KDE, Xfce or IceWM.
> > >       
>
> Correct and that is a choice that was made. If you'd taken the trouble to 
> read the installation guide, or even the Etch release notes, before you 
> started the installation, you'd have seen that Gnome is the default 
> desktop environment and how others can be installed.
>
> Closing this report as things worked as intended.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
>
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