Re: Bug#452388: "Standard system" is confusing
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:42:46 +0000 (GMT), Chris Bell
<chrisbell@overview.demon.co.uk> said:
> Standard system without desktop?
Well, to me this implies there should be a "Standard system with
desktop" as well. And the underlying criteria of standard is not
necessarily to exclude a desktop -- just that currently, X and a
Desktop environment are too big and cumbersome to be deemed suitable
for installation by default on _all_ Debian machines; but this may well
change in a few years.
What we install by default is arrived at by complex series of
trade-offs; but I am pretty sure it is size of the isntall, and perhaps
security considerations that drive the trade-offs, not where or not the
functionality is command line driven, or not. So standard ahs to be
small, useful for most of the installations, and not contain large
chunks that are not of use to a "large" segment of the user base (to
sit there gathering potential security bugs and offer nothing useful in
return for these users), and probably other criteria I might be
missing.
The trick is to convey all that in one line :-)
manoj
--
rugged, adj.: Too heavy to lift.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
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