Re: Neurodebian tasks (and Debian Science)
quick clarification for now, hopefully would find time for more later)
On Wed, 06 Apr 2016, Ole Streicher wrote:
> > Are you aiming to provide that level of granularity within debian
> > installer? if so -- that would be cool.
> Sure, I am also unstatisfied with the current state. There is currently
> no way to select individual packages during the installation and also
> not with tasksel, and I would guess that this will stay so for Debian
> Stretch. However, once we have our "foot in the door" (that's probably a
> "False Friend" in english), we have a good reason and pressure to get
> something. We just need volunteers ;-)
> But let's be pragmatic here. The proposed solution is not ideal, but it
> is a step forward, and something realistic.
agree. thus +100 ;)
> > I am not sure what such a default blend should carry really... how
> > could I decide for a lab to use e.g. AFNI vs FSL vs [...]
> Neurodebian already offers a bootable image, and a default virtual
> machine -- so you already *have* some idea of a default installation.
we had some live cd attempt in the past but didn't push it forward.
thus the only bootable image is the VM, which is just a stock debian
stable + neurodebian repo enabled + neurodebian-desktop package for
custom appearance (+ some NeuroDebian menu with pre-selected apps which
get installed if user clicks on them) + "welcome wizard" which at the
end pretty much provides few of those 'tasks' options. But the point is
that nothing neurosciency in a default installation.
that automatic installation idea though -- it might be actually a cute
one to be adopted for -tasks packages, which could provide those ad-hoc
.desktop files within a dedicated Blend submenu and plugs for all
user-executable tools/packages linked there.
Example:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/neurodebian.git/tree/xdg/desktop/neurodebian-psychopy.desktop
which uses this tool
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/neurodebian.git/tree/tools/nd-autoinstall
but that is orthogonal to your current effort Ole, so sorry for
derailing.
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Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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