Re: Bug#712696: debian-installer: Add Cinnamon and Mate as alternative DEs.
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:28:42AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 src:tasksel
>
>Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> (2014-02-02):
>> Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> > Re: Processed: closed by spam, thus reopening
>>
>> The bug wasn't closed by spam, but by Ben Hutchings who said:
>> > We do not have packages of these, and probably never will. This is not
>> > a bug in the installer.
>>
>> although now I think we actually do, so maybe we want to revisit this.
>>
>> If packaging of those is anywhere near complete, the next thing we'd
>> need are tasksel tasks for these desktops...
>
>I'm not sure we want to support every desktop environment out there… but
>I guess tasks might not hurt, so punting that to tasksel. And adding
>debian-cd@ to the loop, to get some feelings about whether new images
>would sound like a vaguely sane idea (I'm really not sure).
Adding new image options shouldn't be too difficult, but beware that
we might even start to struggle for space on DVD#1 if we end up with
lots of different desktops...!
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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