Steve Lamb wrote: > Or the system is going to have multiple users who might want different DEs. And if that's the case then you select both of them during the install. >>I still haven't >>uninstalled Gnome, something I've been meaning to do for a long time, but >>haven't had the willpower to spend that much time hunting down every last >>unneeded package. > > Hardly Debian's fault there. Except that Debian put Gnome there when all I selected was "Desktop environment." Come on, you know that Linux users tend to value specificity. WHICH desktop environment? I would be very happy to see the tasksel setup show exactly what is being installed, e.g. * Mail server (Exim) * Web server (Apache 2) * Desktop environment (X.org, KDE, Gnome) * DNS server (Bind 9) And the like. Sure, you can always opt for the select-nothing-and-apt-get-it-later approach, but let's be realistic. At least let me know what *exactly* I'm signing up for so I can avoid it. And really, how bad can a separate option for KDE and Gnome be? I mean, while we're getting KDE and Gnome, why not icewm, xfce4, and fluxbox? Why should we stop with two bloated environments when we can have two bloated environments and a million lightweight ones? Are we trying to see how much space we can burn? How hard can it be to give the user a choice during the install, and why is that such a stupid idea according to you? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL++++ P++++$ L+++>++++ E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e>++ h(--)>--- !r>+++ y->+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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