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Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

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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


-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

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  Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 13:20 +0100
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