* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 07 15:25 -0600]: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say: > > If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the > > following: expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop" > > he then will have an install with only KDE. > > If he doesn't want to re-install he can run: > > tasksel install kde-destop > > Thierry > > It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the > point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen > the "expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop"" is in posts telling me, > now Philip, what we should have done.
That was the only thing I groused about when Etch was released as I did a couple of practice installations. The consensus over on Debian-User seemed to be that no real problem exists since a working (open to interpretation, I guess) GUI was installed. Installing KDE was easy enough for me since I'm quite familiar with Aptitude. Ridding the system of GNOME to recover space was not so easily accomplished. The argument went that *something* had to be the default and since Debian had committed to GNOME years back, it was the default. Others cited "confusion" on the part of a newbie presented with a choice. Yeah, right. Newbie selects Debian out of a few hundred distros and only *then* during installation is confused by a choice? :-D I guess the standard answer is to "file a bug report". > Until tasksel has "desktop-Gnome" and "desktop-KDE" as separate > options, I will be stuck with seeminglt endless dselect sessions. Egad, I haven't touched dselect in *years*. I use Aptitude in interactive mode (which I gather a lot of other people don't do since I see references to its commandline invocations). - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | "Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @ | a GNU generation!" http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]