Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

[Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>]

Greetings, Andreas, and everybody,


On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:34:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to give some status information about how we can make Blends more
> visible at installer stage:  Holger Levsen, Phil Hands, Steve McIntyre
> and I had some discussion in DebCamp.  The conclusion was that adding
> Blends to the installer tasksel menu would be perfectly possible if
> tasksel itself would provide some menu hierarchy.  We all agreed that
> the current selection of tasks needs some overhaul in general.  It
> could provide some menu item:
>
>   "Select Blend"   (or rather some better text here!)
>
> and than you get a selection of Blends to pick (one or more) from.
>
> For the Stretch release Phil even wrote some code in this direction that
> needs some refresh. (Phil, can you give some pointer if there is
> something to test?)
>
> Any comments / code contributions are welcome.

Please, add some small strophe to explain what a blend is, as I can tell that
this is not something widely known even to seasoned Debian users/admins (have
examples from research labs).

Also, when I installed debian-science and debichem last time, the process
downloaded such an amount of software that it almost filled my disk (which I was
not suspecting). Maybe, a rough indication of the used disk space in front of
each blend might be useful, in this respect.

Just my 2 cents, along with my very best wishes,

Filippo

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