> > it would be nice, if Debian installer would support GeoIP to use default > > values where appropriate. > > I don't think we're going to set up networking without asking, let alone > contacting some service on the internets to figure out what country the > user might be in. Good point, I didn't think about the privacy (and potentially security) concerns. An additional button "try to get some default values automatically" with the necessary explanations of your valid concerns is probably not helpful, as the user didn't even select his language, thus in general can't read neither the button nor the text. But if I give a Debian image to Joe User, he will expect to have an installation, which is as easy as possible without resulting in wrong settings (so the selected language should be correct, for example). If we had a "simple install" mode next to the "normal install" and the "expert install" I'd suggest to make GeoIP the default for the "simple install" and deactivate it for the other two modes. But as we do not have that, I could imagine having it active in the normal install and using a Debian server secured by TLS (if that's possible with GeoIP, I didn't check). Regards Patrick
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