Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu
Brian writes:
> On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> The Debian desktop environment installs task-desktop. This package
> recommends desktop task packages. task-gnome-desktop is the first one
> listed, so it will be the one installed. In that sense, the installer
> does know what the default is.
>
> Suppose a user installs with base-installer/install-recommends set to
> false. With the Debian desktop environment being the only option ticked,
> a user would not install task-gnome-desktop but would get xorg and
> enough software to use X. The suggested scheme would not cater for this.
When during a Debian install a random user gets in front of the tasksel
dialog, they probably don't know about this complex behaviour. I think
we should make this dialog less ambiguous to let users know what boxes
to check according to what they want.
Do you think the behaviour "without Recommends" should be an option
presented to the user?
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Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
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