Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu
On Fri 18 Sep 2020 at 04:36:08 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I guess what is not clear to me includes (and I did some googling while taking
> > > a break from yardwork):
> > >
> > > * does task-desktop provide some functionality that would not be installed
> > > if the user requested GNOME, KDE, ...?
> > >
> > > * does task-desktop provide some functionality that would work without one
> > > of the other listed DEs (GNOME, KDE, ...)?
> > > * and, for extra credit, what is the functionality that task-desktop
> > > provides that is not included with any of the DEs?
> >
> > All three of these questions have been answered twice.
> >
>
> If answered {which I doubt}, the explicit answers to those explicit
> questions were not conveyed to readers.
> * does task-desktop provide some functionality that would not be installed
> if the user requested GNOME, KDE, ...?
It provides the default DE (and can be preseeded with tasksel/first) :
Recommends: task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | task-kde-desktop |
task-lxde-desktop | task-cinnamon-desktop |
task-mate-desktop | task-lxqt-desktop
It allows only X to be installed (--no-install-recommends):
Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), xorg, xserver-xorg-video-all,
xserver-xorg-input-all, desktop-base
> * does task-desktop provide some functionality that would work without one
> of the other listed DEs (GNOME, KDE, ...)?
It allows only X to be installed (--no-install-recommends).
> * and, for extra credit, what is the functionality that task-desktop
> provides that is not included with any of the DEs?
For task-mate-desktop:
Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment,
lightdm
It is not possible to install only X.
I hope this helps in the exploration of the task selection menu and the
search for leanness.
--
Brian.
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