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Is preseed.cfg flexible enough?

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I have a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose is to have multiple installs 
of Debian for demonstration of different ways Debian may be 
configured. While I work out kinks I am using Mate as my D.E.

I find some Debian defaults annoying. Setting them to reasonable 
values on a running system is straight forward but becomes 
annoying every time an installation is done.

Problem 1. Defeat automounting of usb flash drives
    This can be handled by
      gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
    on a running system if Mate is installed.

Problem 2. Default font size is too small.
     In Mate that can be remedied *on a PER USER* basis by menu 
option
        System>-Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
     The default there is "10". I also have note that "10" 
appears as a default size
     elsewhere implying that it is system wide. Can I force 
everything to use "14"?

Problem 3. File-managers default to pretty Icons rather than 
informative List view.

Can preseed.cfg handle those and similar in an D.E. agnostic manner?
The possibility is hinted near the end of 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs05.html.en#preseed-chainload 
.

TIA

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Is preseed.cfg flexible enough? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-26 14:00 +0100
  Re: Is preseed.cfg flexible enough? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2016-11-26 15:10 +0100

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