On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:56:39PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > Setting the root account password is not mandatory in standard > > installation, > > skipping it already adds the first user account to sudo. > > Lowering the priority skips 2 questions in the standard installation. > > The questions will still be available on the expert install and preseed. > > You are going to make me HATE the defaults now. > > I hate sudo, I always use su if I really have to do something as root. > I want to be able to fix my machine if something goes wrong, and it > does after all ask for root's password when something goes very wrong > during boot.
I'm inclined to agree that it would be better to leave this the way it is, although perhaps it isn't necessary to ask passwd/root-password-again if you enter a blank password for passwd/root-password (I'm not sure what effect this would have on page layout in the GTK frontend, though). At the very least, I don't think these questions should be dropped to low. IIRC, Frans did a good deal of work to make medium-priority installs useful, with a reasonably increased number of user-facing questions and without the vast amount of noise you get when doing low-priority installs. > Can we stop trying to be as awful as Ubuntu? I don't think there was any need for that last comment. It is sufficient to observe that Ubuntu is aiming at a different audience. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110811151855.ga5...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
