Re: debian on distrowatch
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:06:06AM -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Scott Henson wrote:
> > Ok ok. Here is my $0.02. What we are talking about here is tasksel.
> > This is the simple package selection utility offered to a user at
> > install time. The thing is that if you install taks "X window system"
> > you get Window Maker as your window manager. But, on the other hand, if
> > you install task "desktop environment" you get Gnome.
>
> Actually, that gives you gnome and kde both, with the option to choose
> which environment to start up in gdm. At least that's what I'm told, I've
> never tried gdm.
I don't see how this could be the case for potato, given that we
didn't distribute kde with potato... (but in sid at least, kde is in the
"desktop" task)
Daniel
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