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Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

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Federico Kircheis wrote: 
> On 04/07/2025 5:32 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 04 Jul 2025 at 07:04:32 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote:
> > > Excluding two or three packages is much easier, and the suggested
> > > approach of appending a - works perfectly if the package was not
> > > installed.
> > 
> > In which case, I think you should install the equivs package (it's
> > in every suite) and use it to build your own packages called
> > libreoffice, etc.
> 
> But wouldn't it break if I want to install libreoffice at a later point?

Yes, you would need to uninstall it first.

If you want a system which can support multiple versions of a
package simultaneously, you will need to look at things like
Lix, and you will need to do even more work.

The point of a Linux distribution is to make things easy to
install software in a way that makes sense to the distribution's
people. If you don't like the way Debian does it, there are many
other distributions, and you can even create your own.

The best thing about a Linux distribution is that you gain a
community of people who know how to do things in the ways that
the distribution encourages. You have to rebuild that if you go
your own way.

-dsr-

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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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