Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu
On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 07:19:50PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> > Is the "Debian desktop environment" Gnome plus other things ? In which case
> > the way it is makes sense.
>
> My understanding, flawed as it may be, is that the installer doesn't
> actually KNOW what the default will be, at the time it draws up the
> menu. A user who selects "Debian desktop" gets whatever the default
> happens to be for the particular installer image that they've booted
> up. With the official netinst/DVD-1 images, that default happens to
> be GNOME. But with some of the "Live" images, or the older CD-sized
> images (no longer supported), the default could be something else.
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.
> I don't have any strong opinions about this, but I wouldn't complain if
> "Debian desktop environment" (the mystery choice) would just go away.
> Let users select GNOME or KDE or whatever they actually want.
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.
--
Brian.
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