On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Curt Howland wrote: > 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.
I still consider this a grave bug in the Debian installer. It either should install most popular desktops together when the desktop task is selected, or install a lightweight one like XFCE if space/download time is a consideration. Actually I'd expect an installer of a neutral distribution like Debian to ask. If OpenSUSE can do it, Debian should also be able to. Therefore is a bug or oversight in the Etch installer. If this isn't fixed in one of the Etch updates, I recommend to file bug reports for the Debian installer when Lenny gets into feature freeze. Cheers, Kevin
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