On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:41:13AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote:
> Previously i was proposing a change of the default editor and the
> default MTA.
>
> Well, my proposition get a lot of traction in the list, and i'm really
> happy of that, it would mean that you care about devuan, and this IS a
> great thing.
>
> As for what i can undertand, there is no full consensus about which one
> editor should be the default one, and the same apply to MTA.
>
> So, for jessie, i think that the best way is to let things be the same as they are.
>
> Jessie will have nano and vim-tiny in the default install, vim-tiny as
> to preserve "vi" requirement to be posix/unix compliant, and nano cause
> it seems to be more easy for all guys that doesn't use vi.
>
> Same apply to MTA, in jessie the default would remain exim.
>
> Anyway, i propose to change this for ascii in this way:
>
> --------------------------------
> INSTALLING FROM THE INSTALLER:
> --------------------------------
>
> If you choose standard (quiet) install, you will get nano as $EDITOR
> and vim-tiny installed too.
>
> If you choose advanced install you can choose between vim-tiny, nano,
> and maybe others too. If you choose vim-tiny, you will have only
> vim-tiny. If you choose another editor, you will get the other editor in
> $EDITOR, and vim-tiny installed too for posix compatibility.
>
> -------------------------------
> INSTALLING FROM DEBOOTRAP
> ------------------------------
>
> We have two choices:
>
> 1- install just vim-tiny
> 2- install a meta package "default-editor" that let you choose like in
> the installer, having vim-tiny as default and installing it in any case
> for posix compliancy.
>
> ---------------------------
>
> For the MTA, there is already a virtual package called
> mail-transport-agent, we can make it a meta package that let you choose
> which MTA you prefer, which one will be the default to be discussed.
>
>
> All those changes are in the direction to let the user choose, and will
> be applied on ascii only AFTER the jessie release.
>
>
> What do you think about moving this way?
> --

Sounds reasonable to me.

Greg


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