> could one possible approach be to create a set of packages for > tasksel? The task-based installation makes a lot of sense to a lot of > the people that I've introduced to Debian. Might a "non-profit > server" or "non-profit desktop" option be a viable option? indeed. probably would want more than 2 profiles, though i'm guessing no more than 5. > If this isn't appropriate for a core Debian tasksel, could Debian-NP > use its own installer with its own tasksel selections? absolutely. through use of tasksel and/or metapackages, we could largely accomplish this. i think this was basically the direction we were headed during debconf. it's really out of date, but we came up with a CD image: http://debian-np.alioth.debian.org/beta/debian-np_20040612.iso it would be great to create an updated CD image, and flesh out more specificly which packages we want to include in which profiles... this may be turning into a conversation more appropriate for the development list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-np-devel live well, vagrant
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