On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 04:41:00PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
>
> > On 26 Oct 2013, at 16:08, "Andrew M.A. Cater"
> > <amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > That wouldbe my preference - a tasksel change for "no desktop" "KDE" "GNOME"
> > "LXDE" XFCE" etc. for the netinst - default being no desktop - ideal for a
> > minimum
> > install.
>
This is for the netinst - so something that will install a minimum system from
the network and is <400M at the moment.
> I don't understand how that would work: I presume you don't mean an isolinux
> option that changed the meaning of "Debian desktop environment" to "no
> desktop".
>
> I think the boot options make the situation more complicated. Why not have a
> selection of tasks
>
No, that is pretty much what I mean: it would be useful to have no desktop
installed by default.
If you select - "Install a desktop environment" then you get to select which
one you want: if that changes init choices / software choices to
pull in the appropriate DE package list before your first boot into the new
system.
Then if someone says - "I need to install a DE because I forgot to install a DE
at initial install time" - one command is needed -
something like
dpkg-reconfigure desktop-environment -plow
should do it.
> XFCE desktop environment (default)
> LXDE desktop environment
> GNOME desktop environment
> KDE desktop environment
>
> Where the debian recommended is suffixed as I've indicated above, and to get
> no desktop, you deselect them all.
>
> My main concern about this would be the task selection screen having too many
> options. In which case the desktop questions could all have their own screen.
>
Yes - a desktop selection should probably have its own screen - that way you
can add any number of DEs you need.
AndyC
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