Frans Pop wrote: > This sounds like a good idea, but will need very careful logic. > For instance, some older (APM-based) Toshiba laptops work well with the > toshiba module and the toshset package where newer (ACPI-based) laptops > need the toshiba-acpi module which does not work with toshset. > I would suspect that similar distinctions exist for other makes. If installing both packages is a problem on some machines, we would need to either fix the package to not do evil things on unsupported hardware, or or have two tasks. > > I'm interested in other ideas for automatic selection of default tasks. > > One thing I feel is currently missing is to show users which tasks have > been automatically selected and the option to deselect them (maybe only > at medium or lower priority). Tasksel supports this (not based on priority though); we just currently hide the language tasks to keep the task list sane. > Which brings me to another pet wish: make it a lot easier to install at > medium priority than currently. > IMO there is a real use for medium priority: > - experienced users now often choose expert and get confused by some of > the informational dialogs (especially the "unavailable drivers" one) > - for users installing for the first time the "no dhcp" boot option and > such are not really obvious, medium priority can be used to offer > useful freedom in a structured way keeping expert for difficult hardware I agree, except I'd just as soon see these changes apply to expert mode installs. -- see shy jo
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