On 08/07/2013 10:22 AM, Josep Lladonosa wrote: > Hello, > > I think that installation of complete Gnome even with the election of > XFCE is caused by network-manager-gnome package. I use wifi connection > to install from debian-installer. > > If this network manager is installed, then all Gnome installs, because > its default configuration is to install recommended packages, as well. > > Instead, I tried to do: > > apt-get install network-manager-gnome --no-install-recommends > > and then only dependencies are installed (not all Gnome, only about 30 > MB. It was hundreds, with the default!) > > I don't know if this should be reported to network-manager-gnome > maintainers, but I wanted to inform here (I know that in the past > there was an intense discussion about this issue...) > I saw this slightly nightmarish scenario on my established Debian testing / Xfce systems and got around it by telling aptitude (the package manger I use) to NOT install recommends. Now I have to examine recommends each time I install something to make the determination myself as to whether or not to install them.
On my systems I traced this problem back to the fact that the network manager package requires gnome-bluetooth, and it is actually gnome-bluetooth that wants everything else from gnome including the kitchen sink. If I purge gnome-bluetooth from the Xfce systems, then aptitude no longer tries to pull in gnome-control-center and gnome-session, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. I experimented by letting aptitude do its thing with all of the recommends from gnome-bluetooth on one system just to see what the total effect would be. It was awful. I wound up with lightdm having switched to gnome as the default session, but even telling lightdm to use the Xfce session still had me logging into the gnome DE. I purged all of the extra stuff from that system, and it's fit as a fiddle now. On all of my Xfce systems, the only non-installed recommended package shown in Audit / Recommendations is gnome-bluetooth. HTH, J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52027f9e.5030...@comcast.net
