Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl): > > ....does not make it clear that standard+desktop will end up in a GUI. > > Correct. > > > If we go back to "Standard environment", I guess it does not make > > things clearer enough. > > The current short description is "Standard *system*", not "Standard > environment". IMO Standard system is quite clear and also IMO > "environment" is very much a wrong term to use as packages with priority > standard do not provide an "environment". > > > Maybe things could be changed in "Desktop environment" to make it > > clear that this is graphical? > > I guess changing it to "Graphical desktop environment" would be OK, but > that does not make "Standard (non-graphical) environment" any less wrong! > > If you want to replace "Standard system" with anything, then it should IMO > be something like "Standard system utilities". Joey, Otavio and I agree with that proposal of yours: Description: Standard system utilities This task sets up a basic user environment, providing a reasonably small selection of services and tools usable on the command line. Description: Graphical desktop environment This task provides basic desktop software and serves as a basis for the GNOME and KDE desktop tasks. > > But even better would be to bring back some pre-sarge tasksel > functionality that allows users to get an extended description of the > tasks. Maybe the new help functionality in cdebconf could help there, but > that would require either backporting it to debconf, or switching to > cdebconf for installed systems. Could be an interesting suggestion to keep in mind.
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