Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.89
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
the changelog of xorg-server (2:1.9.4-2) reveals the following:
In a nutshell, one may want to choose between installing:
- xserver-xorg-core: the server itself, with no strings attached.
- xserver-xorg: pulls the server and drivers, contains the X wrapper
and some documentation.
- xorg: pulls xserver-xorg as well as various X11 clients and fonts.
Currently the desktop task of tasksel installs the whole xorg package and thus
pulls in a lot of utility packages. I think tasksel should only install the
xserver-xorg package instead. I mean, do we really need twm and xcalc when
tasksel installs an entire desktop environment?
- Fabian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.89 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
tasksel suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/desktop: gnome
tasksel/first: Desktop environment, Standard system
tasksel/tasks:
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