Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]
On Tue 06 May 2014 at 07:54:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> This post is being composed well after a great tree of responses to OP
> have accumulated. In these, as well as in other posts about DE in
> Debian I have seen mentioned the JWM environment. It is interesting to
> me, but I am aware that I make mistakes much more often than the
> average Debian user. I want a new "task-jwm-desktop" to be written. It
The second Q.:
https://joeyh.name/code/tasksel/faq/
> would do for Jwm the same sort of thing that task-xfce-desktop does
> for Xfce. It should not be difficult in my totally naive view of what
> is involved ;-). It needs to be done by someone who already knows (and
> likes) Jwm, not by a person like me, who is merely curious about it,
> and not even a novice developer/maintainer.
You never know. :)
> And while I'm making suggestions, I think every task-XXX-desktop
> should have a matching task-XXX-desktop-remove for use by people who
> discover that they have made, in their opinion, a mistake. Or some
> advice in the wiki on how to cleanly remove a "task". Knowing what is
> involved in backing out is helpful in deciding whether or not to try
> something. Who knows, I might even give Gnome3 a try.
The Debian Fairy has waved her magic wand:
tasksel remove <task>
Followed by
apt-get --purge autoremove
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