Hi,
I added a few CCs, and added below a quote that I should have added to
the original mail.
On 11/5/21 12:50, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
Hi,
I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI
turned on) with the same netinst image <debian-11.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso>.
I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop
environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE installation.
It does.
a)
| [ ] Debian desktop environment
| [*] XFCE
b)
| [*] Debian desktop environment
| [*] XFCE
Using (b), I end up with 12 more installed packages. I checked that
there weren't any available upgrades after installing both (apt-get
update && apt-get upgrade showed 0).
The offending list is:
hv3
libsqlite3-tcl
libtcl8.6
libtk-img
libtk8.6
tcl
tcl-tls
tcl8.6
tcllib
tk
tk-html3
tk8.6
Maybe there's a bug somewhere in tasksel?
I did some tests running tasksel again after the installation, and were
intriguing, but I'll hold the deeper tests for after this is inspected.
Sorry, I forgot to quote the previous mail:
> I think the goal of the menu design was to accommodate
> a first time user who has no experiential background
> to chose a specific desktop. If you chose
> "Debian desktop environment" AND a specific desktop,
> the specific choice overrides.
So I proved that this is not what is happening.
Cheers,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
