Re: installation report
3 reactions - Thanks!
> try the new installer
Too late - there was a 6-hour window between my report
and the moment the machine was really in use. Cannot
reinstall now without disrupting stuff.
>> [during installation of a new Debian system - select All packages]
>> No conversation at all should occur while files are being installed on-disk.
>> On the other hand, no daemons or so should be started without confirmation.
>> A security risk.
> Do not install those packages, then.
Wrong answer. I do not install "those packages". I install "All".
The number of packages will slowly grow and it will become less and less
feasible to start a conversation about individual ones.
Selecting "All" during installation is a much weaker commitment
than something like "apt-get install". It does not follow that I
know what the package is or does, or that I want to use it, or that I
want to configure it.
> What you seem to expect is probably against Debian philosophy.
If so, then perhaps Debian philosophy will have to change.
Andries
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