Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > At the moment one can choose which of kde, gnome, lxde,xfce (and > others?) should be installed using the desktop= kernel option to d-i, > or by preseeding the tasksel/desktop debconf value. > > But I've seen requests for a normal debconf question instead, and > implemented a new udeb this evening to allow this to happen. It is in > the d-i git repository, > <URL: ssh://git.debian.org/git/d-i/desktop-chooser.git >. If this is part of d-i, the repository should be added to the top-level .mrconfig file in d-i, so it is checked out with the rest. > The template text need more work That's the entire reason that tasksel does not prompt the user to choose between desktop environments. They are not describable in a few sentences, so the user who is not already familiar with them is left with a technical choice which they are not qualified to make. d-i's main UI goal is to avoid presenting the user with a long series of such choices. -- see shy jo
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