On Friday 08 August 2014 15:15:17 vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not a Debian developer, just a Debian user, and I want to say that I > was happy to see XFCE being the default DE. Just because it's small, > classic and neutral DE - which GNOME 3 definitely isn't. I think XFCE is > a better default... because I think it's not that uncommon for people to > really dislike GNOME 3. > > But, generally speaking, I think that the whole debian-installer's > "tasksel" is implemented inconveniently. You don't even know what you'll > get after installing these very broadly defined "desktop environment", > "web server", "database server", "mail server" tasks... > > It installs exim for mail server, but I never use exim, I use postfix; > it installs postgresql, but I need mysql more often; same for gnome3 - I > never use gnome3, I use either XFCE or KDE... So I have to either purge > it after installation or check nothing in the installer, and install > everything by hand from the console. > > Not a big deal of course, but for me it makes tasksel useless. Why > debian-installer couldn't provide you with some choice? Of course if > you're just using a CD/DVD image and have limited or no internet access > you can't choose the DE that's not on your CD/DVD; but now there is no > choice even when you use the netinstall image... I am also a user not a DD, and long ago (I have been a Debian user for all my systems since 2001) I stopped using tasksel to install things like the desktop/database/mail server. I install a basic system and then install what I actually want (usually KDE/Postgresql/Exim4/Apache).
I do see that not having something like the current tasksel questions leads to questions like "I install Debian and all I have is a command line, where is the graphical interface?" which appear periodically even with the tasksel question. I would have thought it better to have a two level structure, where you are asked for instance if you want a database, and if you select it you are then asked which one (which can have a default for newbies). Similarly for desktop you would be asked XFCE/Gnome/KDE. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6149770.nzVcz7b4Ut@stargate