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Re: Debian default desktop environment



Undefined User <unknowuser01@gmail.com> writes:

> 2014-04-04 19:52 GMT-03:00 Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>:
>
>> pointless discussion
>
> First of all, great attitude, my friend. It seems like you are a very
> reasonable person. Second, pointless discussion? So all these people here
> are just wasting time? Well... What can I say? That's your point of view
> and I have to respect it.

Well, I should probably have worded the conditional clause in that
sentence to make my point more clearly -- i.e.:

  Given that the options other than XFCE that people are advocating here
  (Gnome and KDE) don't actually fit on CD#1, there is very little point
  trying to decide which of them you might want, since you cannot have
  either of them.

If you're wondering where the idea that they will no longer fit on CD#1
came from, it's been a repeating theme on debian-boot, as the packages
and dependencies have grown over time -- this thread seems to cover the
subject pretty well, if you read all of it (there's quite a lot of it
though):

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/05/msg00684.html

As for my grumpy tone, I apologise for that -- it probably comes from
the several voluminous threads on debian-devel recently spouting drivel
about systemd which I may have unfairly associated with this thread.

Cheers, Phil.
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