Revive task selection in installer
Users often request more fine-grained package selection in the installer. Now that tasksel is much improved from when we decided not to use it for Warty, and now that Ubiquity is available as the simplest installation method, it may be time to consider reviving tasksel as an expert mode feature in the text-mode installer. To do this, we need to sketch out reasonable subdivisions of our existing seeds as sets of packages that a user might want to install to perform a particular common task, perhaps with reference to the existing Debian tasks; work out how to express these in a reasonable way in our seeds, and transfer this data automatically to tasksel; and resurrect the relevant code in pkgsel.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Matt Zimmerman
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Ivan Krstić
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Colin Watson
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for edgy
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Colin Watson
- Completed by
- Colin Watson
Whiteboard
tfheen 2006-06-23: some minor details, pushed back to draft to get them clarified.
kamion 2006-06-23: reviewer comments addressed.
tfheen 2006-06-23 1054Z: I'm happy with the new version → pending approval.
kamion 2006-07-27: All the bits are now in place with the exception of a required Soyuz patch (sent to cprov).
kamion 2006-08-08: Soyuz patch rolled out and confirmed operational. Implemented.
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
