Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:09:56AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
> ...
> about the blends available during installation, and this makes the
> package that provides this information "important". Therefore, it is not
> a policy violation, which in turn removes your argument to make this bug
> "serious". It also does not "completely break the UI of the installer"
> -- the selection is in no mean different from the desktop environment
> selection. I would therefore propose to lower the severity of the bug.
+1
> <snipping lots of sensible text I'd fully subscribe.>
>
> Concerning your idea of having different install images, I am not
> convinced that it is a good solution: First, it multiplies the whole
> image creation process by the number of blends. If we have 10 official
> architectures and (let's say) 5 blends to be included there, they would
> then have to manage 60 images instead of 10, with all the requirements
> that come out of this (installer manual, web page, updates, web space etc.).
I would say more drastical: Replacing multiple items in a menu by
multiple images to download will make the situation confusion which is
IMHO not yet. It also fully ignores that people might want to install
DebiChem, Debian Med and Debian Science at the same time.
> But it also gives a wrong sign: Debian Pure Blends are by definition
> integral part of Debian itself. But even now, this is hard to understand
> for many people -- questions like "what is the difference between Debian
> Astro and Debian" are quite common, even in front of a poster describing
> exactly that. With having separate official images for all blends,
> people would even be more confused. As an example, I would take the
> Ubuntu approach of having "Ubuntu", "Kubuntu", "Xubuntu" etc. instead of
> installation options -- people usually think that they have to
> re-install the system if they want to switch from one flavour to the
> other. Having similar experience with Debian would be bad for the
> reputation of the Blends, and for Debian in general.
I could not have said better.
Ole, thanks for your sensible response.
Kind regards
Andreas.
PS: Just a warning. Since I forgot to push my latest changes for blends
0.6.96 the Git repository is a bit messy. In case we would decide to
revert Holger's changes some care might be needed.
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