• Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

    From Hendrik Sattler@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 12 13:30:02 2022
    Am 11. Januar 2022 09:24:28 MEZ schrieb Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>: >On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:51:45AM +0000, Seth Arnold wrote:
    On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
    The only missing bit AFAIK is getting the step where tasksel gets
    installed into the target system, and then run, to be able to grab the
    version of tasksel to use from an alternative apt repository (which is
    already being created as part of the salsa-CI pipeline I've got setup),

    Is installing tasksel actually necessary? apt understands tasks, eg:
    apt install lamp-server^

    https://shantanugoel.com/2010/10/23/apt-get-caret/
    https://askubuntu.com/questions/211912/

    I believe this works even if tasksel isn't installed on the target system.

    Yes, but that doesn't give a user a friendly way to select a task.

    If you know the task then yes, that's plenty, but there's more at play here.


    Well, entries like "Debian desktop environment" do not have a good explanation in tasksel either. Unless you look at the apt information or the debian wiki, there is not much for the user to find out about it. Gnome is the default of it but still listed
    separately, adding more confusion. That's at least my experience with it. There could be more guidance for the user in tasksel itself, avoiding the need for a different media to get better information.

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  • From Andreas Tille@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 12 22:00:02 2022
    Am Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:56:28PM +0100 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
    Well, entries like "Debian desktop environment" do not have a good explanation in tasksel either. Unless you look at the apt information or the debian wiki, there is not much for the user to find out about it. Gnome is the default of it but still
    listed separately, adding more confusion. That's at least my experience with it. There could be more guidance for the user in tasksel itself, avoiding the need for a different media to get better information.

    I agree that tasksel has several constraints but I'd prefer if those
    things could be discussed in a different thread thus changing the
    subject here.

    Kind regards

    Andreas.

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