On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:45:12AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > Andreas, I've read again your paper and I've just noticed that your > are referencing #186085 (maybe the first time I was too tired, or it's > newly added). I don't really think this is particularly important. The way I see it, CDDs have two major problems: custom package selection and custom package configuration. This thread has already talked about custom package configuration in regards to pre-seeding low priority (or even unasked) debconf questions. IMHO, custom package selection (the problem that #186085 seems to be addressing) is an easier and less pressing problem. Basically, if we're going to pre-seed debconf databases, we're going to be using a (slightly) tweaked installer. If we're going be tweaking the installer, as part of a full CD or not, we might as well feed the custom package the package selection! Clicking on that item in tasksel is not only not going to be what I think is the major way people will install CDDs (or at least Debian-NP). More importantly it will not let get us any closer to do the custom configuration issues that are really the bulk of the work we're doing unless we rethink taskel. > Would a general, CDD independent, framework for automatically > creating such ISO/DVD images make sense? Sure. I think it's a nice idea. Of course, automatically creating the CDs is going to have to come after we have a fully documented non-automatic framework that is some-what consistently adopted. :) We are still a good deal away from this. :) Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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