Re: Some thoughts on a clean Woody install
Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> (BTW, Who should I contact about the list of mirrors presented during
> install? Does that only contain the http.*.debian.org machines? I guess
> it will probably remain like that. )-:
Which set, the one used before the first reboot, or the one use after?
> I'd say in this install, the only thing that bothered me was the old
> favourite of the difficulty of getting a good selection of packages
> installed. For an average desktop system, there's basically only a
> "desktop environment" task that is relevant - in my case I didn't want
> to install it, as I want to go with KDE instead of Gnome. (This install
> is for a friend, btw.) And of course there is no KDE task. I'm hoping
> there will be in 3.1, once we can collect stats on how many people
> actually do run KDE?
The desktop task intentionally installs _both_ kde and gnome.
> I do feel KDE should be easier to install. The "kde" meta package
> (source package meta-kde) is not yet in Woody, I really hope it will
> make it, I'll check out it's bugreports etc.
It's not? This has to go in; it's release critical. Tasksel uses this to
select the kde packages for the desktop task.
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