Marc Wilson wrote: > Why? Why does a GUI installer make it feasable, but a ncurses installer > not make it feasable? It's unfortunate that Debian has actually caved in > to this pressure. Well, the rationalle most developers have for working on the GUI version of the installer is that it allows installation in some languages that can't be displayed using the console. There *are* actual UI improvements possible using a GUI installer, although they're not implemented yet. At least the groundwork is now laid. > Unless the ncurses installer is *deficient* in some manner, the mere > "GUI-ness" of the other installer does not enhance the installation in any > way. They both do exactly the same job in exactly the same way. If they > don't, then one or the other is broken. Amausingly, most of the bug reports on the GUI version of the installer have been about various bugs that make it hard to use with the keyboard. -- see shy jo
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