Bug#452388: "Standard system" is confusing

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:16:48AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:26:12AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Eddy Petrișor 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Any suggestions as to which an accurate description would be?

Or, perhaps we could find a way to distinguish cmdline-only packages, and
make two tasks out of it?  Policy requires that they're installed by default,
but that doesn't mean they must be a single task.

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Robert Millan

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