Bug#981543: task-lxqt-desktop: when selected in d-i, installs both gdm3 & sddm, presenting the user with an unhelpful choice

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
>      Installed it in a VM, as should be seen here (if you look soon enough for
>      the job not to have been flushed):
> 
>        https://openqa.debian.net/tests/10133
> 
>      (I'll attach a screenshot to ensure that this bug report remains meaningful after those links rot)
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>      This video shows the point in the install where the user is prompted to
>      choose a display manager:
> 
>        https://openqa.debian.net/tests/10133/video?filename=video.ogv&t=26.25,26.29
> 
>      It shows the GDM3's debconf question about which DM should be the default
>      out of the choices of 'gdm3' and 'sddm'. If only sddm was installed at this
>      point the question would not need to be asked, which is what we see with
>      other desktop selections.

I did some test installations, and cannot reproduce your findings.
First I installed LXQT and then in another installation XFCE. And gdm3
was NOT installed in both tests.

Looking at your screenshots at https://openqa.debian.net/tests/10133
it seems that you have selected two desktop environments, Gnome + LXQt.
So the seen result of gdm3 and sddm being installed is expected and correct.


Holger



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