[pkg-fso-maint] new install targets: minimal + games

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 23.02.2009, 14:32 +0100 schrieb Michele Renda:
> On 23/02/2009 02:48, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > please again take it as a basis of discussion ... I don't want to impose anything.
> >
> > I had felt that Mokomaze was too good to be left aside and too unknown for newbies to
> > think about it for a manual install. So I had felt that install.sh should install it. But
> > then, not everyone will like that much.
> >
> > Introduced was the target "minimal", which does the same that "all" did before. The new
> > "all" now also installs the target "games", which today only installs "mokomaze". If there
> > are more suggestions, the typical sudoku comes to mind, then please raise your hands.
> > Qtopia has a series of nice games, btw. gtkboard would be nice if it wasn't so much
> > keyboard-demanding.
> >
> > Suggestions are welcome.
> >    
> Hello Steffen... mmm... I have some dubts about it.
> I think the sintaller bust to remain as simple as possible.
> Also I think that it would be nice to give a ready enviroment to the 
> user, but install.sh is not the best place where to give it.
> My idea is this:
> 
> Why we don't prepare some "pills"? I explain. I use the install.sh, and 
> I have a clean enviroment. Then I can download another script, for example:
> 
> gta02-games-pill.sh
> gta02-xfce-pill.sh
> gta02-lxde-pill.sh
> gta02-wireless-pill.sh
> etc.
> 
> And this script, with only apt-get / wget / and may be a diff on 
> xorg.conf, give us a configure environment to enjoy.
> 
> So, we can leave the install.sh environment clean, and everyone can 
> configure very easly their enviroment.
> 
> What do you (all) think? It is a stupid idea?

I share your doubts, and I like the idea of these additional scripts.

Also note that these should be runnable (at least) from the installed
Debian system!

How about this:

The default /root/.xsession contains a snippet like this.

if [ ! -e /root/.welcome-seen ]
then
  touch /root/.welcome-seen
  xmessage "Welcome to your new Debian installation. You have installed
a quite bare system at the moment. Please consider visiting
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner/Pills for an assorted list of
additional packages you might be interested in"
fi

And on that wiki page we provide the scripts you mentioned – or just
copy’n’pasteable lines as in:

For suitable Games, please run:

 apt-get install mokomaze openmoocow


Comments?

Joachim



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