For the information of whoever's investigating this bug, this is probably because Mark chose the desktop environment task, which ropes in x-window-system (including xdm) and a bunch of GNOME/KDE packages (including gdm, or so I figure.)
Maybe tasksel should be tweaked to only install one? (hint: gdm is pretty)
I did choose the desktop environment task. If anyone still wishes to see my base-config.log, I've put it up at:
http://fyren.slupet.com/base-config.log
-Mark Haidar
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