Hi Bhavani,
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 08:55:34PM +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> On the other hand, will an user have choices on what to install by default
> on his system whether it might be apps or drivers as sometimes as an user
> an alternative to a driver or an app would work fine for me.
> Or will the installer and software center choose the best ones to enable
> and install as per the system environment?
Nothing in this Technical Board decision reads on the question of what
options an image installer presents to the user at install time regarding
app selection.
There are performance reasons to NOT make fine-grained selection of
installed apps part of the install experience. The fastest way to install
to a target system is by copying a full filesystem tree, with minimal
package operations, and all of the recent installers are optimized around
this idea - such that each of the available install options can be exposed
via squashfs+overlayfs as a tree that can just be raw copied to the target.
Some flavors, including Ubuntu, offer both a "minimal" and a "full" install
to choose between, but that's really the level of configurability it makes
sense to go for in the installer. The admin can always customize the
install after reboot by adding and removing packages to taste.
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