Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 15:37:38 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > Currently the desktop task of tasksel installs the whole xorg package and > > thus > > pulls in a lot of utility packages. I think tasksel should only install the > > xserver-xorg package instead. I mean, do we really need twm and xcalc when > > tasksel installs an entire desktop environment? > > > I don't think that's a good idea. And xorg doesn't depend on twm.
The actual reason that the desktop task includes twm is documented in the task: # Since neither the gnome nor kde desktop tasks may be available, include # enough basic X stuff here for a minally useful desktop without them. twm xterm (Tasksel's current implementation allows the desktop task to be presented as a choice even if gnome and kde are not available.) -- see shy jo
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