Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl):
> > does not make it clear that standard+desktop will end up in a GUI.
>
> Correct.
>
> > If we go back to "Standard environment", I guess it does not make
> > things clearer enough.
>
> The current short description is "Standard *system*", not "Standa
Hello,
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
> I guess changing it to "Graphical desktop environment" would be OK, but
> that does not make "Standard (non-graphical) environment" any less wrong!
I think it would make clear that it is indeed a graphical system and
it makes sense for me
Christian Perrier writes:
> My understanding of your point is that having this:
>
> [ ] Desktop environment
> [ ] Foo
> [ ] Bar
> [ ] Standard (non-graphical) environment
>
> does not make it clear that standard+desktop will end up in a GUI.
>
> If we go back to "Standard environment", I
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> My understanding of your point is that having this:
>
> [ ] Desktop environment
> [ ] Foo
> [ ] Bar
> [ ] Standard (non-graphical) environment
>
> does not make it clear that standard+desktop will end up in a GUI.
Correct.
> If we go b
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl):
> On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > What about something like:
> >
> > Description: Standard (non-graphical) system
> > This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system,
> > that provides the most commonly used tools in non-gra
On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> What about something like:
>
> Description: Standard (non-graphical) system
> This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system,
> that provides the most commonly used tools in non-graphical
> environments.
That will look very silly i
Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk):
> However, I worry that this will encourage CLI-phobic users to
> uncheck the Standard task. It's not for console-only systems; after
> all, I'm using mutt right now in my window manager. It's a basic
> "neutral" user environment, including apt, exim4, p
Christian Perrier wrote:
>> Description: Standard system
>> This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system.
>
> What about something like:
>
> Description: Standard (non-graphical) system
> This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system,
> that provides the most commo
Quoting Christian Perrier (bubu...@debian.org):
> Description: standard (non-graphical) core operating environment
> This is the subset of the distribution, installed by default, which
> can be added upon to provide a more featureful and tailored operating
> system.
>
> The current description
(CC'ing some contributors in the thread who might be missing this mail
otherwise)
I went again on this bug report (against tasksel) about the name of
the "standard" task (and description) being somewhat confusing.
The thread in this bug report is very long, but finally concludes that
a rewrite i
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