On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:41:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 24 octobre 2013 à 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little > > discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the > > day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I > > feel. Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. > What are the reasons exactly for deliberately depriving the default > installation’s users of a more complete and featureful desktop? > So far, in this discussion, I only read “I don’t like systemd” (which is > irrelevant) This is a strawman. The real objection is "tight coupling of a desktop to an init system and kernel is at best lazy engineering, and at worst a massive power grab by an upstream, and is contrary to Debian's values." -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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