> See, I think that choice *is* good, but it
>mandates choosing how much choice to have, if
>you catch my meaning. Requiring you to confirm
>every package one at a time isn't providing you
>with choice - it's providing you with a pain in
>the neck. What Slack (and most modern distros)
>does is giv you a choice of how you want to
>control the install process. You can set it to
>dump the whole affair onto your drive - every
>package - without confirmation. Or you can get a
>tree view of everything organised as individual
>packages within groups (pretty much what you
>were talking about, I think). And there are a
>billion other options, including, for the silly
>folk, the aforementioned "confirm every single
>package one-by-one." To my thinking, that's what
>having a choice is all about. Being able to
>control every aspect of the install down to the
>fine details, but not having to if you don't
>want to.

Well, that's what *I* was trying to say too. And my point is, the last time I tried to install Debian, I don't remember being presented with any of those choices. I just remember getting dumped into the tree grouping of all the packages and being all "Uh... Ok." I don't even think anything was pre-selected--I kind of had to guess what the core OS needed.

Admitedly it's been awhile since I've tried to install Debian. But from what I've heard, it's not gotten much better.

-- Dave