Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Ole, > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:55:13AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> in the alpha-6 relase of the debian installer, blends can selected for >> the first time directly during installation [1]. This was implemented by >> adding a blends-dev/debian-blends-tasks.desc file on a place where the >> "tasksel" step can find it. > > That's *very* good news and might realise a dream I'm dreaming of more > than 10 years. ;-)
Let's see if we can keep a good compromise here. I was a bit surprised about the emotions and personalities that popped up in the discussion. >> * what are their requirements to be listed in the default installation >> image? >> >> * can they live with just *one* option as a compromise? >> >> * if not: what needs to be done to get your requirement into the >> installer? >> >> For Debian-Astro, I can (unsurprisingly) state that having one checkbox >> only is a compromise that works. What about the others? > > For Debian Med it would be a big enhancement over not beeing mentioned > in the installer at all. That is probably the main driver here. Please note that this is now "opt-in" as changed to resolve #825004. I will open wishlist bug reports for all blends mentioned in the web page to clarify if and what they want to have in a default installation. > If we might have only a single selection option for Stretch we might > even go with just the Biology part. So in the end we could cope with > a one option compromise to not make things more complicated than they > need to be. Could you put the "Install: true" tag into the task headers of the debian-med package that should go into the default installation, and edit the debian-blends-tasks.desc in the blends package to reflect the selection you make? Best regards Ole
