On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Curt Howland wrote:On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say:If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the following: expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop" he then will have an install with only KDE. If he doesn't want to re-install he can run: tasksel install kde-destop ThierryIt's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen the "expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop"" is in posts telling me, now Philip, what we should have done.I still consider this a grave bug in the Debian installer.It either should install most popular desktops together when the desktop task is selected, or install a lightweight one like XFCE if space/ download time isa consideration.
I think there's more than ten options for desktop managers. Should it install them all?
I don't think it should install ANYTHING without asking the user what they want.
Actually I'd expect an installer of a neutral distribution like Debian to ask. If OpenSUSE can do it, Debian should also be able to. Therefore is a bug oroversight in the Etch installer.
Yep, asking is best.
If this isn't fixed in one of the Etch updates, I recommend to file bugreports for the Debian installer when Lenny gets into feature freeze.
Why wait? Get it in the BTS now so someone has time to work on it, if you're passionate about it.
-- Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com