Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 01:41:57 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > I don't see any strong offenders. Remember, task packages are meant > for ordinary users who want an usable system out of the box. Wasting > some disk space is not an argument for them -- the size of tasks is > negligible on even smalles

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:21:18AM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:04:08 +0200 > Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > Also great would be an early no-install-recommends option / switch. > > > > If you consider no-in

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:04:08 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > Also great would be an early no-install-recommends option / switch. > > If you consider no-install-recommends, why would you use d-i tasks, > which are made specifically

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > Also great would be an early no-install-recommends option / switch. If you consider no-install-recommends, why would you use d-i tasks, which are made specifically with recommends in mind? Just deselect everything and configure th

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Simon Walter
On 06/15/2016 08:16 PM, richard lucassen wrote: ... 1) Wishlist: a real PXE installer like Debian is providing. Just an intrd.gz and a vmlinuz that will guide you through the install process. No need for USB sticks or CD drives. Running a PXE installer together with an apt-cacher-ng saves time

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:46:26 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > perhaps we can start recommending some pinning to avoid > avahi and/or dbus and such things. It might be nice to have a selection of such "-1" pinning options available at install time - perhaps along with the possibility to add and "pin <500"

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread richard lucassen
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:46:26 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > > The only remarkable thing is a running avahi-daemon. But that's not > > a big issue IMHO. > > yes, I'm having fun myself punching an apt-get remove --purge of > avahi-daemon and dbus now and then, gives me a degree of satisfaction. > :^) but

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

2016-06-15 Thread Jaromil
thanks for your reports richard, also about the web mirror. On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, richard lucassen wrote: > The only remarkable thing is a running avahi-daemon. But that's not > a big issue IMHO. yes, I'm having fun myself punching an apt-get remove --purge of avahi-daemon and dbus now and then