On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 12:50:23 +0100, 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.
Bearing in mind that a bullseye installation of mine does not have a DE but does have xorg, the commands apt install task-desktop task-xfce-desktop apt install task-xfce-desktop tell me that 759 packages are needed in both cases. None of the packages you cite are mentioned in either list or already present on the sytem.. -- Brian.
