Bug#275907: tasksel: desktop-environment task should be splitted

[Lior Kaplan <webmaster@guides.co.il>]

Package: tasksel
Version: 2.11
Severity: wishlist

The desktop-environment task needs about 500MB to install x-windows-system, kde & gnome. Please provide a way to install only the x-windows-sytem or choosing some kind of desktop to be installed with it (GNOME, KDE, XFCE...).

These task should be more sane in size and won't make it hard to novice users to a slim system. That also related on bug #264903.

I know this have some "political" issues around this, but please let the users choose the best desktop for themselvs.

Thanks,
Lior Kaplan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii  aptitude                      0.2.15.8-1 terminal-based apt frontend
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.38     Debian configuration management sy
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl        1.01-17    Using libc functions for internati