Re: Help!

[Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>]

Bruno Buys wrote:

> > Errr, wasn't the real reason for the problem not having installed 
> > properly?  I mean sure, if you don't install gnome, you can install 
> > it later, but I think allowing people to choose "Desktop" is easier 
> > than trying to apt-get all the packages later.
> If by choosing "Desktop" Debian would install gnome, I´d be very 
> frustrated, as I don´t use gnome. If Debian choose to install kde, 
> certainly other gnome users would be frustrated. If Debian, 
> democratically, decides to install both, and, to end the question for 
> good, a bunch of other *boxes, people would start whining Debian is 
> bloated. If Debian asks 'which one you want' during installation, 
> people would say its very hard to install Debian, a newbie can´t have 
> all this info...". If, finally, Debian leaves no graph. env. at all, 
> people would say "no DM, the Debian folks have gone crazy!..".
> You can´t please all the people all the time.

Yes, when you have so many options, sometimes it's hard to choose.  But 
maybe Debian can have two choices:
* Desktop (GNOME - recommended)
* Desktop (KDE)

By selecting both, you'd get both if that's what you really wanted.  Ok 
this is too simple, and still has the same problem of being hard to 
choose.  Maybe there needs to be a "newbie" selection which just 
installs everything good for them.  ;)

Actually I think this has come up on another list... that someone just 
needs to sit down and expand tasksel and make some nice tasks.  (Isn't 
the debian installer using tasksel?)

Angelo