Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Philip Hands writes ("Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)"):
> Perhaps we need an aditional option at the boot prompt for a vanilla
> install, that sets priority=critical or some such, so that one gets the
> equivalent of hitting return thoughout the installer, and only get
> prompted for the user & passwords, the point at which you're going to
> trash your disk, and not much else.

I don't think the current installer asks too many questions.  The
timezone and locale are unavoidable.  The disk partitioning is
unavoidable unless you want to make an express-disk-wiper image :-).

Perhaps the right answer is to prefix the tasksel question with a
pre-question, asking the user to choose between
   Default desktop install
   Choose selection(s) of packages ("tasks")

Then the tasksel menu becomes less critical.

Ian.

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