| scott-work | hi, i'm project lead for ubuntu studio and i wanted to ask a few questions about how edubuntu implemented the user package selection during installation | 12:16 |
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| scott-work | is this the correct place to do this? or is there somewhere else or someone else i should speak to? | 12:16 |
| scott-work_ | hello stgraber, are you familiar with the patched ubiquity for user selection components during edubuntu installation? | 18:48 |
| stgraber | scott-work_: user selection components? do you mean the fine grained package selection? | 18:51 |
| scott-work_ | stgraber: aye! that i do | 18:52 |
| * scott-work_ apologizes, he doesn't always talk like a pirate or in third person | 18:52 | |
| stgraber | so yeah, as the author of that code, I'm fairly familiar with it :) | 18:53 |
| scott-work_ | i am the project lead for ubuntu studio and we are considering using the same methodology , would you be able to give tips for implementation? | 18:53 |
| stgraber | if you already have properly split meta packages and use Recommends for most of your packages (instead of Depends), copy/pasting our plugin into ubiquity and changing the few lines at the top of the code should do the trick | 18:56 |
| stgraber | IIRC there are a few lines in the code that basically set what's your main meta package and a blacklist | 18:57 |
| stgraber | you'll want to update that part, most of the rest should just work | 18:57 |
| scott-work_ | okay, that is good :) shnatsel had already researched some of this and was aware of most of that | 18:58 |
| scott-work_ | that's awesome | 18:58 |
| scott-work_ | i was really worried that there would be the one hidden pitfall that would make this exceedingly difficult | 18:59 |
| stgraber | nope. I guess once you've tested it and started using it we should do something to have it in common somehow to avoid maintaing it twice | 19:01 |
| stgraber | although the code doesn't change much, I still have a few bugfixes to do for 12.04, mostly to do with the plugin crashing when some strings contain utf8... | 19:01 |
| fosburg | where do you get type1 fonts (like helvetica) that can be installed on linux os | 22:49 |
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