On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 05:24:10PM +0000, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> I often have difficulty with correct terminology despite having a very definite
> idea.
>
> The term 'Installer' applies to the first stage actions taken outside of the
> package manager such as partitioning, formatting, bootloader and kernel...
> which actually make the build host bootable. There 'may' be other steps in
> addition (e.g SSH), but that will be up to the individual performing the build.
>
> Can anybody identify any issue with chrooting a shell onto the installed media
> 'before' reboot to allow for manual changes (e.g. apt-get) should the builder wish ?
>

But this is something you can already do from the "Installer" (just
select "Run a shell", one of the last items in the main menu).

>
> But then there is the second stage, language selection, keyboard map selection,
> fit for purpose package selection...any of these may change in the future.
> So far I have been using the terms 'customise' and 'configure' but neither
> of these terms sit well with me.
>
> Does anybody have a better suggestion for naming the second stage ?

I would call it "initial system configuration", maybe? It looks like
you have in mind something like the old "yast" in SuSe. There is
nothing like that in Debian, AFAIK. At least not something that is
shipped by Debian and tailored around Debian. And there is a very good
reason for that: you don't have two Debian systems that look exactly
the same, so maintaining such a "universal config manager" which
allows you to change the system configuration independently of which
packages and components you have decided to use would be an enourmous
PITA.

Debian/Devuan is not a ready-to-use-out-of-the-box distro like Ubuntu
or Mint. It's more a pick-what-you-want-and-carry-on distro.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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