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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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