Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
I agree with Richard's criticism and would suggest to not present that
first line "Debian desktop environment" at all, because it is
redundant with the second line "... GNOME". If someone deselects the
second line because no wanting GNOME, but does not image what the
first line might contain, then he will be surprised that GNOME became
anyway fully installed after the first line was still selected, a
behaviour which makes no sense after the second line was explicitly
not selected. It is especially annoying if you did this selection
"mistake" on slow or expensive bandwidth. When I first time did this
mistake, I thought, hey, maybe for a desktop they will install already
something like network manager and other network managing tools or a
tiny collection of enhanced editors like vim instead of vi only, maybe
some other cute utilities. But I ended up with looong time downloading
and installing a full blown GNOME which I actually wanted to avoid and
therefore did unselect the second line initially.
People are overthinking this. If you want more control, just skip the
software selection screen altogether. If you're going to nit-pick over
what gets installed when using it, you aren't the target audience.
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