On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:41:13AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote: > Previously i was proposing a change of the default editor and the > default MTA. > > Well, my proposition get a lot of traction in the list, and i'm really > happy of that, it would mean that you care about devuan, and this IS a > great thing. > > As for what i can undertand, there is no full consensus about which one > editor should be the default one, and the same apply to MTA. > > So, for jessie, i think that the best way is to let things be the same as > they are. > > Jessie will have nano and vim-tiny in the default install, vim-tiny as > to preserve "vi" requirement to be posix/unix compliant, and nano cause > it seems to be more easy for all guys that doesn't use vi. > > Same apply to MTA, in jessie the default would remain exim. > > Anyway, i propose to change this for ascii in this way: > > -------------------------------- > INSTALLING FROM THE INSTALLER: > -------------------------------- > > If you choose standard (quiet) install, you will get nano as $EDITOR > and vim-tiny installed too. > > If you choose advanced install you can choose between vim-tiny, nano, > and maybe others too. If you choose vim-tiny, you will have only > vim-tiny. If you choose another editor, you will get the other editor in > $EDITOR, and vim-tiny installed too for posix compatibility. > > ------------------------------- > INSTALLING FROM DEBOOTRAP > ------------------------------ > > We have two choices: > > 1- install just vim-tiny > 2- install a meta package "default-editor" that let you choose like in > the installer, having vim-tiny as default and installing it in any case > for posix compliancy. > > --------------------------- > > For the MTA, there is already a virtual package called > mail-transport-agent, we can make it a meta package that let you choose > which MTA you prefer, which one will be the default to be discussed. > > > All those changes are in the direction to let the user choose, and will > be applied on ascii only AFTER the jessie release. > > > What do you think about moving this way? > --
Sounds reasonable to me. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
