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Re: Bug#452388: Back on "'standard system' is confusing" bug report



Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org):

> Description: standard (non-graphical) core operating environment
>  This is the subset of the distribution, installed by default, which
>  can be added upon to provide a more featureful and tailored operating
>  system.
> 
> The current description is indeed:
> 
> Description: Standard system
>  This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system.
> 
> 
> I think we might want to converge to something like:
> 
> Description: Standard (non-graphical) system
>  This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system.
> 
> I think that actually the synopsis is to be enhanced to make it
> clearer that the standard system is not graphical, which is certainly
> the main flaw of the current wording. (note that the synopsis is what
> appears in the menu during D-I).
> 
> On the other hand, the current long description is fairly clear and
> includes a word I really like (reasonably) that makes it clear that
> the contents of the task is essnetially a compromise.
> 
> Would anyone object to such change to fix this bug?


Talking with Otavio in RL, it appeared interesting to add something
more to the long description.

What about something like:

Description: Standard (non-graphical) system
 This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system,
 that provides the most commonly used tools in non-graphical environments.

(dle added to CC list, to get input by our famous proofreaders)

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