Re: Debian default desktop environment
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:36:30AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Undefined User <unknowuser01@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2014-04-04 19:52 GMT-03:00 Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>:
> >
> >> pointless discussion
> >
> > First of all, great attitude, my friend. It seems like you are a very
> > reasonable person. Second, pointless discussion? So all these people here
> > are just wasting time? Well... What can I say? That's your point of view
> > and I have to respect it.
>
> Well, I should probably have worded the conditional clause in that
> sentence to make my point more clearly -- i.e.:
>
> Given that the options other than XFCE that people are advocating here
> (Gnome and KDE) don't actually fit on CD#1, there is very little point
> trying to decide which of them you might want, since you cannot have
> either of them.
>
> If you're wondering where the idea that they will no longer fit on CD#1
> came from, it's been a repeating theme on debian-boot, as the packages
> and dependencies have grown over time -- this thread seems to cover the
> subject pretty well, if you read all of it (there's quite a lot of it
> though):
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/05/msg00684.html
>
> As for my grumpy tone, I apologise for that -- it probably comes from
> the several voluminous threads on debian-devel recently spouting drivel
> about systemd which I may have unfairly associated with this thread.
These days why bother with CDs at all - simply use DVDs? Too many
choices is hard on finite developer resources and really not needed.
IMHO YMMV
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