reassign 718855 tasksel thanks Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net): > 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.
All this confirms that the bug belongs to tasksel and, precisely, how
the xfce-desktop is built:
Package: task-xfce-desktop
Architecture: all
Description: Xfce desktop environment
This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
the Xfce desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian users
expect to have available on the desktop.
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
task-desktop,
# The basics of xfce, not the whole thing.
xfce4,
lightdm
Recommends:
# well known xfce4 enhancements
xfce4-goodies,
xfce4-power-manager,
xfce4-mixer,
xfce4-terminal,
# xfce text editor
mousepad,
# calendar application
orage,
# libreoffice widgets using just gtk
libreoffice-gtk,
# xfce is really improved by using dbus
dbus-x11,
# support for scanners
xsane,
# media players
vlc,
quodlibet,
# pdf viewer
evince-gtk,
# icon theme
tango-icon-theme,
# network management
network-manager-gnome,
# package management
synaptic,
.../...
We need to have Xfce maintainers to give their unput, here.
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