Package: task-desktop Version: 3.68 Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-b...@lists.debian.org
Hi, I just installed Debian stable in a virtual machine. When I was asked during the installation process which "meta-packages" to install I left "Desktop Environment" selected but explicitly deselected GNOME. I expected to end up with a minimal graphical environment, e.g. X with twm and xterm or similar. However, I was surprised to find out after installation that indeed the entire GNOME desktop was installed albeit me explicitly deselecting it during installation. The reason seems to be that task-desktop Recommends a whole list of alternative desktop environments with task-desktop-gnome being the first on the list -- and since Recommends are installed by default and since the first of a list of alternatives is installed by default, this is how I ended up getting GNOME installed, although I didn't even want it. The outcome is the same as if I had left the GNOME checkbox selected, which is quite surpsising and unexpected to me. Please consider introducing an absolute bare minimum package to let task-desktop depend on (by means of Recommends) instead of falling back to GNOME. Thanks! Cheers, - Fabian -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages task-desktop depends on: ii desktop-base 11.0.3 ii tasksel 3.68 ii xorg 1:7.7+23 ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.7+23 ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.7+23 Versions of packages task-desktop recommends: ii alsa-utils 1.2.5.1-1 ii anacron 2.3-31+b1 ii avahi-daemon 0.8-5 ii eject 2.37.2-1 ii firefox 93.0-1 ii fonts-symbola 2.60-1.1 ii iw 5.9-3 ii libnss-mdns 0.14.1-2 ii sudo 1.9.5p2-3 ii task-gnome-desktop 3.68 ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1 task-desktop suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
