Quoting Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>:
You appear to be conflating a few different things here.
Yes, the initial statement was intended to be separate from the paragraph after.
As far as the set that's appropriate for medium-memory users, that's really a user specific thing; what can be improved are the selection of packages for this case, which is an area where working with task selection and the installer will have the most significant impact.
Good point, instead of trying to specify certain applications I should be looking at providing a good selection.
At the end of the day though, your time is your own. Spend it as you will.
Yes, please :)"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Alvert Einstein
Don Armstrong 1: Exposing fewer packages to such machines by only showing "relevant" packages and/or improvements to libapt may be useful here, but it's not an area that I'm terribly experienced in. -- Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher. (Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added, but when nothing else can be removed.) -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org