Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu
rhkramer@gmail.com writes:
> On Friday, September 18, 2020 09:21:21 AM Brian wrote:
>> On Fri 18 Sep 2020 at 07:32:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > Right now, if you un-check GNOME, but leave "Debian desktop" checked,
>> > you get a mystery desktop, which usually but not always turns out to
>> > be GNOME, which is the thing that you just un-checked.
>
>> The default desktop is determined by the Recommends: of task-desktop.
>> The DEs are installed based on the Depends: of the various packages.
>> Is there a better way of doing it?
>>
>> > How you don't find that confusing is a mystery to me.
>
>> Regarding new users: they are just as likely to be mystified by "lxde"
>> and "lxqt" as by "Debian desktop environment".
>
> I don't know for sure, but one suggestion I'd make is to move that first option
> (whatever it said, something like Default debian desktop) to be the last
> option and change the wording, something like: "[for advanced users:] [can be
> used to] install X only (with no desktop)" (I guess if you want X only you
> have select that in the other place you mentioned.)
And in that case, if users insist on this possibility, it would be much
more useful to have this entry *always* install X only even without the
"no recommends" option.
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