Hello, Yesterday I did a fresh install of kde-standard on my laptop (using d-i alpha-1, expert install, sid, so KDE 4.4.3, filesystem ext4), but I didn't get the result I hoped for. I believe that the recommended packages are the key. Since I did it in a 'custom' way, I'll explain each step I did. First I installed the base system with d-i selecting the laptop task and the base-system-utilities. d-i now installs recommended packages too, since that's the (new) default. Since I've seen (in the past) a whole lot of IMO bogus packages getting installed when recommended packages are also installed, one of the first things I do after a base install of the system is to instruct apt not to install recommended packages (APT::Install-Recommends "0"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf). After that I installed kde-standard with the following command: "aptitude install kde-standard kdm xserver-xorg virtuoso-minimal" After rebooting and logging into KDE I noticed the following things: - When plugging in a usb device, device-notifier didn't notice anything and the only way to access that usb device was to use mount it from Konsole - The battery monitor didn't work at all - I did not have a suspend to disk/ram option - System Monitor - Harddisk didn't see any partitions I didn't do further testing, since this was already not what I wanted. Since I wanted to figure out what was left out because of not installing recommended packages, I ran the following commands on a freshly installed base system, without disabling recommends. The outputs are in the attachment. "aptitude -s -y install kde-standard" "aptitude -s -y install --without-recommends kde-standard" "aptitude -s -y install kde-standard network-manager-kde=" (since I don't like/want network-manager) The difference in --with-recommends and --without-recommends are so big wrt kde-standard that I think kde-standard should be installed with the recommended packages. But leaving out network-manager-kde seems to also not install some packages which may have contributed to the problems described above. On first inspection libgudev-1.0-0 and libknotificationitem-1-1 seem especially relevant. So I would like to know how other ppl are installing kde(-standard) without bloating their system, but with a properly functional one. Tips/tricks/etc are also welcome. Regards, Diederik
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