Re: sid

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:02:43 +1000
Michael Thompson <kneedragon1962@gmail.com> wrote:


> After a week of struggle, we appear to be back exactly where Debian
> sid should be, with the possible exception of the gnome desktop.
> Whether that has any bearing on the matter or not, I don't know, but
> it did strike me during the install, that perhaps I should leave it
> in, because gnome3 is the default desktop, so the Debs would be
> developing for compatibility with that first ~ Remove it, and that
> might break things ....
> 

Not commenting on your problem, but sid does not need Gnome. or at
least the Gnome metapackage and all its dependencies.

I have neither Mate nor Gnome on my sid, which was up to date two or
three days ago. I do have a few Gnome packages, such as Nautilus (bow
called Files) and I seem to have Network Manager, though I did not
install it. Presumably that is now standard, either on Debian or Xfce4.

-- 
Joe