said jacobheinrich--- via tde-users:
| Would you prefer the live ISO contain mostly the complete trinity suite | of applications (ie: trinity-desktop), or a more curated selection of | TDE utils on top of a minimum TDE install. Im trying to gauge what | people would prefer as I am now getting more free time to work on | matrixOS as I have now got a internet connection installed at the new | house! :) | | Remember, I would like to make the "every-persons" Trinity live-iso, any | suggestions, wants, needs, or nice-to-haves would be useful for me to | know.
My thoughts:
Yes, all of TDE, though not necessarily all o it installed -- not everyone will want KOffice, for instance. (Possibly because it isn't all that good.)
Two things that I noticed with the current Debian: First, and truly hellish, is that /etc/apt/sources.list is entirely unpopulated. This is a crime -- it leaves the user unable to get the important stuff (locate, mc) that the installation leaves out, as well as anything else they'd like. I'm sure they dreamt up a reason for this, but it's a nightmare. Second, the final part of the install procedure should be a "Check for updates?" checkbox that does an apt update&&upgrade.
Though you might not want to rewrite the Debian .iso, so fixing those two things would need to be a little script at the end, fixing sources.list to include the Debian repositories themselves and the TDE repository.
(I feel strongly about this after having just now installed Debian on the dinky GPD Pocket, which is 1920x1200 on a 7-inch screen that is -90-degrees oriented. Fixing these things requires microsopic glasses, though at least the mouse works once you hit xrandr with rotate right. I finally just emailed sources.list to myself and copied it into /etc/apt/. All the while marveling at the madness sometimes over at Debian.)