Hi,
I know Debian Edu members are reading the debian-blends list but to
be very sure I put their list in CC.
Am Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 02:11:00AM +0100 schrieb Cyril Brulebois:
> Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> (2024-12-12):
> > I think I was perhaps forgetting that tasksel (and so blendsel) rely on
> > the installed system to do what they do, so one cannot push them earlier
> > in the order without more effort than I had in mind.
> >
> > I still think it might be worth having an early question where it might
> > be possible to add more complexity later, just to provide a hook where
> > people like Debian-Edu could start developing things.
> >
> > On the other hand, having a "Do you want to install a Blend?" question
> > immediately after the locale selection seems a bit weird, and would be
> > rather annoying if answering it wrong would lead to blendsel not
> > appearing after tasksel, when one had hoped it would.
> >
> > I guess some feedback from blends folk about what they're hoping for
> > would help at this point. Perhaps blendsel is just what most people had
> > in mind, in which case the likes of Debian-Edu just need to continue
> > with their custom D-I.
>
> As far as I can remember, at least Andreas was fine/happy with the idea
> proposed by Holger (which also matched what I had in mind to make some
> progress there), so I don't see why we should disrupt the install flow
> with an early question for very specific usecases…
I confirm I was very happy about Holger's proposal and it might make
sense to keep things as simple as possible for the moment. My gut
feeling is that Debian Edu people consider their pre-seeding as a solved
problem. Since the request to offer some Blends selection inside the
installer did not came from Debian Edu its fine for them to stick to the
original proposal doing the Blends selection after tasksel. I could
imagine since the pre-seeding is done earlier its clear the user wants
Debian Edu (and no other Blend) so the Blends selection in this case
might be redundant and some option should be provided to skip blendsel.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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