On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 01:06:59PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > On 17.05.2016 11:52, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 08:52:32AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> On 17.05.2016 02:13, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >>> I'm not sure how reasonable it is to have such a long list of meta > >>> packages in the installer. See attached tasksel-gtk-greyscale.png > >>> for the initial display with the graphical installer, and attached > >>> tasksel-text-greyscale.png for the text mode installer. > >> > >> I don't see it problematic as it is in the moment: The list is not > >> too long: Even if it does not fit on one screen, the rest is > >> visible with just one scroll, and this is indicated by the > >> scroollbar. And I don't think that the number of options is too > >> much (it shouldn't be much more, however). > > > > I'm just wondering if the blend install could be implemented one level > > higher using the ISO image isolinux menu structure. > > The advantage of the boot menu would be that in the tasksel step, one > could select individual tasks for the selected blend, and not just a > default installation. This would, however, still not allow a selection > on the package level as it was requested for NeuroDebian. > > This would however add all the 13 blends to the boot menu, making this > much more crowded. The 13 blends would only show up if 'blends options' is chosen in the main menu. The main menu would only have one additional entry. > And it would be impossible to select two blends at > the same time (say: science and astro). Ack. > > All blends would need their own debian-<blend_name>-install-udeb and > > debian-<blend_name>-profile-udeb; these need to be on all official > > Debian installation media if these should work like the mini.iso image. > > Extrapolating the slow development on the common blends-install subject > in the last years (especially in bug #758116), I would not expect this > to happen before the next release. Yeah. Wolfgang
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