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Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?



On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 16:44:04 +0000, Brian wrote:

> On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 16:28:36 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 12:50:23PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> > > hv3
> > 
> > This is a web browser written in TCL/tK. What I suspect is happening is
> > it's being pulled in to satisfy a dependency on "www-browser" virtual
> > package by one of the desktop metapackages.
> 
> Interesting that hv3 hasn't any Reverse Depends: and that 'apt install
> task-desktop task-xfce-desktop' does not propose it for installation'.

I forgot firefox-esr is installed. This satisfies the www-browser
package dependency. Hence

 apt install task-desktop task-xfce-desktop                                                                          
 apt install task-xfce-desktop

show the same number of packages to be installed.

Purging the browser gives the twelve package differnece obtianed by
Alejandro Colomar.

Now it gets more interesting. task-xfce-desktop depends on task-desktop
and the later recommends firefox | firefox-esr. The first command above
proposes to install firefox-esr. Why propose hv3 too?

-- 
Brian.


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