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A more minimal task-*-desktop

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Hello,


I normally install a desktop environment with tasksel, as it installs at 
configures most programs that are to be expected in a user-friendly 
desktop environment:

* login manager
* power management
* network manager

and so on and so on.

I do not know most programs that are needed in order to have such 
experience, and I do not necessarily want to.
Those programs are different between desktop environment (lxde, kde, 
mate, ...) and might change even between versions.

The only issue I have with tasksel, is that sometimes I wish a more 
minimal environment.
In most cases, is I would prefer it would not install some programs like 
libreoffice, media player, browser and mail client.

I often use firefox/thunderbird as mail client, and vlc as media player 
and tasksel might install others.

I could remove those packages afterwards or just set those I like as 
default, but it is suboptimal as they are still downloaded and 
installed, and if not removed will take space and bandwidth during updates.
I would prefer not even installing them.


I could not use tasksel and install only what I want, but then I have to 
learn/verify all programs that are required for a functional environment.


Is there any way to use tasksel, but also exclude a list of programs 
from installing?
At the end of the day, I want to avoid a small subset or programs that 
should not affect the functionality of the desktop (KDE should not stop 
working if firefox is the default browser intsead of konqueror) and that 
take a lot of space (I think libreoffice+dependencies is the biggest 
package in the lxqt environment)

As everyone has different needs, I think that different tasksel targets 
for more minimal desktops experience are not worth.
Now I'm complaining about four or five programs that are too much for my 
needs, but surely there is ton of stuff that I do not care, but other 
might not want on their systems.

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A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-06-29 14:50 +0200
  Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-06-30 16:10 +0200
    Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-30 16:10 +0200
  Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com> - 2025-06-30 18:20 +0200
  Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Michael Paoli <michael.paoli@berkeley.edu> - 2025-06-30 19:20 +0200
    Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-03 16:40 +0200
      Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-07-03 17:50 +0200
        Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-03 18:20 +0200
          Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2025-07-03 20:10 +0200
          Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-04 07:10 +0200
            Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-07-04 07:30 +0200
            Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-04 23:10 +0200
              Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com> - 2025-07-05 15:30 +0200
              Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-07-05 15:40 +0200
      Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 18:00 +0200
      Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2025-07-04 03:30 +0200

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