On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 12:49:01PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
> > I think the case can be made that for novice users they don't need to
> > interact with the dpkg install questions.
>
> Yup, this is the biggest problem with Debian - and it is why I'm very
> surprised that Corel chose to base their distro on Debian. IMHO, Debian
> is a very poor choice to base a "user friendly" installation on,
> because you would have to rewrite the install scripts of half of the
> packages.
Which is something that we want to do anyway.
> > 3. Which X server to use. I believe the reason dpkg requires asking this is
> > because debian has a unique, and more secure, way of linking the
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the X server through the /etc/X11/Xserver file. Couldn't
> > XF86Config be made more intelligent to automatically do this ?
>
> Which X server to use, which window manager to use, what the default
> dictionary language should be, the name of the default irc server.
> All of these questions are asked multiple times during install.
> Moreover, the default profiles seem to install many unnecessary window
> managers, but they don't install all of the window managers. Compare
> Red Hat or OpenLinux, which probe your machine and install and
> configure the correct X server.
This could be taken care of by the configuration for X. This is
currently just XF86Setup or xf86config so there's not a whole lot in
there but it could be changed (and IMO should be) The X configuration
most certainly does need a serious overhaul. =>
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