Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages
On Thu 11 Jun 2020 at 06:03:28 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm interested in the installer menu titled "Software Selection".
> I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment"
> and/or "MATE" is checked.
> TIA
Checking "Debian desktop environment" alone gets you the task-desktop
package. From
apt show task-desktop
we see
Recommends: task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | ...
This means that task-gnome-desktop is installed. In other words you get
Gnome as a desktop.
Checking "MATE" alone gets you the task-mate-desktop package. From
apt show task-mate-desktop
we see
Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, ...
task-desktop is installed and its Recommends: is fulfilled by the
ask-mate-desktop package. You get MATE.
Checking "Debian desktop environment" and "MATE" is the same as checking
"MATE" alone.
--
Brian.
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