Re: How does the debian development team build Root Filesystems with Desktop UI Support?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 06/02/2021 01:37 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 02:58:23PM +0900, Yuichi Tsujiwaki wrote:
> > Hi, how does the debian development team create rootfs with a GUI?
>
> AFAIK  not
>
>
> > If you're using multistrap, could you please tell me where the config file
> > is?
> > I'm looking for a procedure to create a minimal Debian OS Root Filesystems
> > with Desktop UI.
>
>
> Do known there is in Debian the package `debos`
>
>
>    Description: Debian OS builder
>     debos is a tool to make creation of various Debian based OS "images"
>     simpler. While most other tools focus on specific use-case, debos is
>     more meant as a toolchain to make comon actions trivial while providing
>     enough rope to do whatever tweaking that might be required behind
>     the scenes.
>    

I browsed https://github.com/go-debos/debos#readme and the included 
links. It looked that it might be useful for a very custom install. Is 
it discussed on a mailing list or on a USENET group. Reading about how 
others use it would help me know if its suitable.
TIA