[12:16] 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] is this the correct place to do this? or is there somewhere else or someone else i should speak to? [18:48] hello stgraber, are you familiar with the patched ubiquity for user selection components during edubuntu installation? [18:51] scott-work_: user selection components? do you mean the fine grained package selection? [18:52] stgraber: aye! that i do [18:52] * scott-work_ apologizes, he doesn't always talk like a pirate or in third person [18:53] so yeah, as the author of that code, I'm fairly familiar with it :) [18:53] 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? [18:56] 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 [18:57] IIRC there are a few lines in the code that basically set what's your main meta package and a blacklist [18:57] you'll want to update that part, most of the rest should just work [18:58] okay, that is good :) shnatsel had already researched some of this and was aware of most of that [18:58] that's awesome [18:59] i was really worried that there would be the one hidden pitfall that would make this exceedingly difficult [19:01] 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] 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... [22:49] where do you get type1 fonts (like helvetica) that can be installed on linux os