On lun, 2009-01-05 at 22:55 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:59 +0100 > Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > > > > > > > Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)? > > > > > > Well, I guess so. > > > > Could you (or someone else from the desktop teams) test this? > > I'm just the user who reported the bug (though I hope at some point to > become a DD), and I have tested with a custom task (below). I did a > standard install, modified the task file and did > > tasksel -t install xfce-desktop Frans said this wasn't a correct way to test. I'm not sure you followed all the mails ont the BR as I dropped you from CC:. > On another note, I'd like to suggest using system-config-printer > instead of foomatic-gui ; I'm not sure foomatic-gui is maintained > anymore and system-config-printer is the recommended replacement in any > event. system-config-printer is nice but depends on python-gnome2 which pulls way too much GNOME and gksu which aswell. But as foomatic-gui does that too anyway… Anyway, I just tried an install in kvm. What I did: kvm -k en-us -hda xfce-desktop.img -kernel linux -initrd initrd.gz -append desktop=xfce Iirc linux and initrd are from d-i RC1 or more recent. It seems to be “the recommended way” to install Xfce Desktop Environment when using the netinstall. And dpkg -l | grep gnome gives: ii gnome-keyring 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools) ii gnome-mime-data 2.18.0-1 base MIME and Application database for GNOME. ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime files ii libgnome2-common 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - common files ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display - runtime files ii libgnomecanvas2-common 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display - common files ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - runtime files ii libgnomeui-common 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - common files ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime libraries) ii libgnomevfs2-common 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (common files) ii python-gnome2 2.22.0-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desktop environment So it's not that hard. Manually replacing foomatic-gui by system-config-printer gives: xfce:~# apt-get --no-install-recommends remove --purge foomatic-gui system-config-printer+ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: python-gtkhtml2 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: python-cups python-cupsutils python-notify system-config-printer Recommended packages: hal-cups-utils synaptic The following packages will be REMOVED: foomatic-gui* The following NEW packages will be installed: python-cups python-cupsutils python-notify system-config-printer 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 823kB of archives. After this operation, 3009kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? I'll try an install with the Xfce cd to see if that matches. But basically I don't see gnome-session or stuff like that coming in. Daniel: it seems I can't reproduce the bug where gnome-session is installed. I'll try again (in case it's a random bug), but basically I'd be fine keeping everything that way, and take care of Xfce task early in squeeze process. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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