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Re: Bug#452388: "Standard system" is confusing
Date: Sun Nov 25 2007 - 11:55:54 EST
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:24:00 +0000, Christian Perrier
<bubulle@debian.org> said:
> Quoting Manoj Srivastava (srivasta@ieee.org):
>> > Any suggestions as to which an accurate description would be? >> >> Description: A minimal, core operating environment "A minimal, core, >> operating system, nominally installed by default, which can be added >> upon to provide a more featureful and tailored operating system."
> I like that one, except maybe that it still doesn't really says that
> there will be nothing like a GUI installed. At the beginning of this
> thread, the point was saying that for most users, "a minimal operating
> system" is pretty likely to implicitely mean something with a GUI (
> whether they're wrong or not is not really relevant, indeed).
I think the fact that we have no gui in standard is merely happenstance; X is huge and not minimal, at least from a old UNIX user's standpoint.
In the future, as disk sizes and data transfer speeds increase, I can see us putting X (and, if one may dream, emacs) into the standard install -- and so, perhaps, the gui-ness or not should not be encoded into the description.
On the other hand, since most people are not old unix hands, we should present a description that does what it needs to, for our current audience:
Description: A minimal, (currently non-graphical) core operating environment This is the subset of Debian installed by default, which can be added upon to provide a more featureful and tailored operating system.
manoj
-- You will never amount to much. Munich Schoolmaster, to Albert Einstein, age 10 Manoj Srivastava < srivasta(at)acm.org> < http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.orgReceived on Sun Nov 25 11:56:48 2007
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