Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:58 +0530
> Amrish Purohit <amrish.distro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Osamu,
> >Thanks for your reply. I will definitely try installing testing over
> >stable version. I make my system dual boot so I have a backup. Here is
> >the way I install the debian, please correct me if I am wrong.
> >I install the core system, then I install gdm3 and gnome-terminal to get
> >the GUI. After getting the GUI I install the packages as I need it. So I
> >plan to do the same with testing. First I will install core system +
> >gdm3 of stable debian, after getting the gui, I will change the
> >repositories in /etc/apt/sourcelist and make dist upgrade. I hope this
> >will work.
> >Please comment if any thing is wrong.
>
> Two points:
>
> - Wouldn't it be better to change the source.list to debian testing straight
> after installation? That way you will not need to download Gnome packages from
> stable, saving bandwidth and time.
That exactly I meant to suggest but Amrish maybe uncomfortable working
without GUI terminal or I may have failed to explain well... Console is
less problematic. As long as he stays within X, gdm3 and
gnome-terminal, it is not really bad. (But X xdm and xterm may be even
better.)
> - If you want Gnome, it is probably better to use tasksel[1], so that all the
> Gnome-related goodies are installed and configured.
Very true.
> Installing just login
> manager and terminal application will only bring in minimal necessary
> dependencies, giving you a rather poor GUI experience - you might as well stay
> in text console.
I do not know what he mean by "the core system". I hope it meant up to
simple X. gnome-core package is already huge :-)
Installing task-gnome-desktop package and its all depends and recommends
is good idea (which I think tasksel menu will do.)
Osamu
> 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Gnome#task
>
> Regards,
> --
> Andrej
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