So, I've fixed half of the problem underlying this bug, but I don't know what to do about the rest. Tasksel uses apt to install a few packages that X needs pre-installed for hardware detection (like discover1) before the desktop task is installed. But there turns out to be a problem with the way apt is called from tasksel; if it needs to prompt for a CD, it hangs. I'd like to fix that by making tasksel use debconf-apt-progress for that apt run, like it does for the rest of the install, but I'm not sure how to. Overly technical explanation: If tasksel is running standalone, a separate progress bar could be used for this, easy enough. But if tasksel is running from pkgsel with a progress bar already up, then it would need to adjust the waypoints so the first debconf-apt-progress call uses a small percentage of the bar, and the task install the rest. And somehow coordinate with the preinst script for the desktop task. This seems like it will be too complex to implement. -- see shy jo
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