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Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop



On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote:
The only issue I have with tasksel, is that sometimes I wish a more
minimal environment.

Then don't use tasksel to install package(s).

Yes, this is what I am doing, but then I need to manually track all packages installed by tasksel, and list all those I'm interested in.

And often I do not know which one I'm interested one, but I know those I do not want.

And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt.
It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core.
It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to inspect which packages are installed, transitive dependencies included..

I hoped it would have been possible to exlucde dependencies, for examle by prefixing them with "-"; for example:

apt install lxqt -meteo-qt


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