Bug#939070: removing gnome desktop in tasksel has little or no effect
Hi,
Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas and Joey,
>
> Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nicoo@debian.org> writes:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >> I accidentially installed debian 10.0 with gnome rather than xfce, so
> >> after the installation, I re-ran tasksel, unselected gnome, and selected
> >> xfce.
> >> [...]
> >> Tasksel probably removed task-gnome-desktop, but many of its
> >> dependencies appeared to still be installed.
> >
> > Yes, removing task-gnome-desktop won't do much if you do not run
> > `apt autoremove` or somesuch.
> >
> > Of course, making tasksel run autoremove would be a terrible idea,
> > since it might remove unrelated packages.
> >
>
> Agreed.
>
> > I'm not sure how that can be addressed, TBH.
Is it required that tasksel provides such functionality ("removing packages
from system")?
Looking at its package description, it's a
"tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems".
So, deinstalling is out of the scope of this tool IMO.
And I can imagine that deinstallation scenario was never considered when
developing tasksel.
Therefore, this bug should be marked 'wontfix'.
Holger
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