On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:44:34PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: hello joey! thanks ever so much for responding. phil has been telling me about the way that you've been 'absorbing' bits of hands-off, when he was developing it, until there was nothing left :)
> > i've tried this: > > > > # somebody added desktop to the defaults (bastards) > > d-i tasksel/first multiselect '' > > d-i tasksel/tasks multiselect '' > > > > it doesn't work. > > > > i've tried this: > > > > d-i tasksel/first multiselect > > d-i tasksel/tasks multiselect > > > > it doesn't work. > > "d-i tasksel/first multiselect " > (without the quotes) > > Note the trailing space. man debconf-set-selections for details of the > format. ah _ha_ thank you. > FWIW, tasksel preseeding was entirely broken in d-i rc1; it's fixed in > current daily builds. You didn't specify what installer image you're using, oops... > and you could easily be using a rc1 based image. *thinks*... no idea! one from about... 4-5 days ago... seems like forever, already. ok i'll download it and run my ... oh DRAT i need a machine with a cd-burner... i had to create my own version of a d-i boot cd, to specify lkcl.net as the default > [blathering snipped] wiiise decision :) > > 1) go find out whoever it was who set the desktop stuff as 'standard' > > priority such that it ends up being installed by default and bugger them > > royally until they scream that they'll fix this snafu > > > > 2) work out how to stop tasksel from installing unwanted software: the > > whole point of the d-i is that there should be a minimalist setup with > > the minimum of questions unless explicitly asked that things should be > > added > > No, the whole point of d-i is to allow anyone to install Debian no > matter what their skill level, this includes both providing the best > possible defaults for naive users (including selecting desktop software > for them by default if their machine seems capable and they don't > override it), and providing full customisation for experts. ... i've been working with phil as his sounding-board and early alpha tester over the past ... eighteen months i think it must be getting on for, on d-i, and so deviations from phil's original evil master plan for taking over the world kinda catch me off-guard a bit. let me think for a while about what you've said. > The point of d-i, for me, is not to be called a bastard or be buggered > for doing both of the above, though others MMV. So please: Tone. It. Down. *cackle*. sorry :) consider me chastised. damn, must put _more_ insults and sheer ridiculousness in next time so that you can categorically and unambigously tell that i cannot be serious [about the use of insults]. l. -- -- lkcl.net - mad free software computer person, visionary and poet. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
