On 06.12.2016 20:13, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Debconf has support for pluggable UI widgets, so somebody could do this > without _too_ much work in the graphical version if they wanted, with > fallback code for the curses and text versions.
In principle, you are true. One of the reasons that I pushed the debian-blends-tasks.desc in spring already was that we can see whether this solution is a good compromise, of if we need to do further changes. For the moment, I don't see pluggable UI widgets as an option anymore: this would either mean to rewrite much of tasksel, or to add another step (--> a new program/package) to the installer. With the ongoing freeze, this doesn't sound realistic. For Buster, we should think about a significant tasksel change, however. Best regards Ole
