Greg Wooledge, on 2019-08-09:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > It [plymouth] seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by
> > dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the
> > quick test I did, it appeared in the list of packages to be
> > installed:
> >
> > $ sudo apt install task-gnome-desktop
> >
> > This looks like a component of Debian default installation from
> > now on; unless I misunderstood the role of task-* packages.
> > Hence the sudden rise in popularity.
>
> wooledg:~$ apt-cache show task-gnome-desktop | egrep '(Depends|Recommends|Suggets):'
> Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, gnome-core
> Recommends: gnome, libreoffice-gnome, libreoffice-writer, libreoffice-calc, libreoffice-impress, libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us, hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, network-manager-gnome
>
> wooledg:~$ apt-cache show task-desktop | egrep '(Depends|Recommends|Suggets):'
> Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), xorg, xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-input-all, desktop-base
> Recommends: task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | task-kde-desktop | task-lxde-desktop | task-cinnamon-desktop | task-mate-desktop | task-lxqt-desktop, xdg-utils, avahi-daemon, libnss-mdns, anacron, eject, iw, alsa-utils, libu2f-udev, sudo, firefox | firefox-esr
>
> wooledg:~$ apt-cache show desktop-base | egrep '(Depends|Recommends|Suggets):'
> Depends: librsvg2-common, fonts-quicksand
> Recommends: plymouth-label
>
> wooledg:~$ apt-cache show plymouth-label | egrep '(Depends|Recommends|Suggets):'
> Depends: plymouth (= 0.9.4-1.1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libplymouth4 (>= 0.9.3)
>
>
> ... so, probably not *just* GNOME, then.
Whoah! Indeed! The presence of task-desktop in the chain
suggests that this would be the case for any of the possible
desktop available. It seems that we will have to get used to
it.
Thanks for having spotted this!
Personally, I missed it because I stick to the "Base utilities"
and "SSH server" options when setting up a machine for myself
using Debian Installer ISO.
Kind regards,
--
Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org>
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