Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org): > Eddy Petri?or wrote: > > > -Description: Standard system > > > +Description: Command-line environment > > > > I agree with Robert; I have been asked quite a few times by friends (while > > installing, what is the difference between standard and desktop system). This > > change would make it a lot clearer what's what. > > Resulting in people de-selecting standard if they choose desktop. Which > is not what we want. You get a point here. > > Anyway, the description is not accurate. Standard includes everything > from documentation about Debian to a MTA to core localisation support, > to core SE linux support, to a portmapper (for NFS mounts), none of > which has much to do with the command line. Sure, describing this as "command-line" is certainly restirctive but we might need to focus on what we want to day: - this task should be installed on nearly any system except those that are really short on disk space - it does not bring a graphical environment Anyone seeing something else to add that would describe the standard system?
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