Bug#257863: tasksel in post-reboot d-i automatically pulls in language tasks -> non-X installation impossible.

[Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>]

Hi,

At Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:04:55 +0200,
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther (luther@debian.org):
> > When doing a sid install with the daily builds of the netboot
> > debian-installer on powerpc, in the french language, i noticed that the
> > new tasksel automatically pulls in the language task, well, at least the
> > french one, which means it pulls in openoffice, kde and another bunch of
> > stuff, which not only makes it impossible to do a small non-X
> > installation, but also means my 512Mo swap partition i use for d-i
> > testing is no more big enough for finalizing the installation.

Yeah, that's a problem. Japanese task installs tooooo many packages also.

> IMHO, there are two possible solutions:
> 
> 1)split each language task in a "x" and "non-x" task and only pull in
> the non-x task while proposing the "x" task as an optional task
> 
> 2)stop pulling in these languages tasks automatically and offer an
> optional language task (generic, such as "Localisation in your
> language"....)

I prefer 2, and how about simply change tests/lang:
from
           exit 0 # install without display
to
           exit 2 # mark install, and display

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org