Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes: > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > Other desktop tasks, such as task-xfce-desktop avoid bothering the user > about this, despite depending upon lightdm in XFCE's case, so they > presumably avoiding pulling gdm3 in during the install. It seems I was mistaken about XFCE, which also presents the same choice, except in that case between gdm3 and lightdm. It seems only the desktops that default to gdm3 are installing just that one DM, and therefor do not bother the user about it, of course. I would think that a user who has selected lxqt (presumably asking for a lightwieght Qt-based install) will be surprised to find that the installer has dragged in a load of GTK/Gnome in order to satisfy gdm3's dependencies, and they may also be somewhat beffudled by the question coming from a package that they almost certainly do not want, asking if they want to use the other display manager or not. IMO we should prevent gdm3 being installed in these cases. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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