Hi Raphaël and all, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (2016-12-08): > I'm thus suggesting that blends-tasks should be removed and merged in > tasksel-data. At the same time, we should fix the installer to bypass > that confusing tasksel screen that we always get by default. > > On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Philip Hands wrote: > > It could be much improved by making it more obvious that the heading is > > a heading. Even if we're unable to stop headings having a checkbox, we > > could change the text and the hierarchy slightly to be something like > > this: > > > > [ ] === Debian Desktop Environments: > > [x] ... Gnome > [...] > > Would that cheer people up without needing a major rewrite of tasksel? > > That would be a good change, yes. > > But more importantly, we need to not show that page at all. I would like > to suggest a first screen: > > Install packages for a: > > [X] standard desktop > [ ] standard server > [ ] minimal server > [ ] Show me more options > > You only see "tasksel" if you check the "Show me more options" which > should be unchecked by default. There's code that translates each option > into default selections at the tasksel level. > > For instance, if you check "standard desktop" (checked by default like > currently, then it enables the "GNOME" task (or whatever was set in the > "desktop" kernel command line option) and the "standard installation". > > If you check standard server, then you get "standard" + "ssh". > If you check minimal server, then you get only "ssh". > > If you select "Show me more options", you can see the effect of each > option as you have some tasks already selected. > > If we do that, then IMO it's fine if the tasksel screen is also cluttered > with blends. > > Christian and Cyril, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think that if > we come up with a patch implementing the above, we could get it in > stretch? What would be the last delay to come up with such a patch? While it's clear to me we need to fix the blends situation at some point before the release (couldn't find time to do so yet; last resort option is masking all of them entirely), I'm rather dubious about changing the package selection/tasksel screen at this point of the release cycle. KiBi.
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