[12:16] <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] <scott-work> is this the correct place to do this?  or is there somewhere else or someone else i should speak to?
[18:48] <scott-work_> hello stgraber, are you familiar with the patched ubiquity for user selection components during edubuntu installation?
[18:51] <stgraber> scott-work_: user selection components? do you mean the fine grained package selection?
[18:52] <scott-work_> stgraber: aye!  that i do
[18:52]  * scott-work_ apologizes, he doesn't always talk like a pirate or in third person
[18:53] <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?
[18:56] <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
[18:57] <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
[18:58] <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
[18:59] <scott-work_> i was really worried that there would be the one hidden pitfall that would make this exceedingly difficult
[19:01] <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...
[22:49] <fosburg> where do you get type1 fonts (like helvetica) that can be installed on linux os