Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer
Hi Ole,
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:23:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> writes:
> > Also, when I installed debian-science and debichem last time, the process
> > downloaded such an amount of software that it almost filled my disk (which I was
> > not suspecting). Maybe, a rough indication of the used disk space in front of
> > each blend might be useful, in this respect.
>
> I would not include debian-science to the blends listed in the
> installer: it is more an umbrella to organize the packages then a useful
> selection of software. The software selection is also inconsitent: it
> only contains software that is not maintained by a more specialized
> blend (like debichem).
>
> So, there is probably no real use case to install Debian Science in its
> current form (unless someone takes the work to kurate a "Generic Debian
> Science Workstation" or so).
True. There might be some general use in may be the following tasks:
https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition
https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/distributedcomputing
https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/statistics
https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/typesetting
https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/viewing
(or even a subset of these). I'm not very keen on having these but may
be this could be a topic to discuss.
> On our last attempt, we had an opt-in for the blends to be in the
> installer; I would propose the same now as well.
Definitely
Andreas.
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