While this has been an interesting thread, it may be predicated on a false premise. I examined the latest weekly CD build, and the reason no desktop tasks at all (even lxde or xfce) appear on their respective CDs is because debian-cd is simply not including tasksel's new task-* packages, at all.
The packages on the CD seem fairly random, including things not in any task like wmaker, alien, and, on the lxde+xfce CD, lots of KDE, but no ldxe or xfce. Even DVD #1 seems broken, containing task-desktop, but not task-gnome-desktop. I'm sure gnome still fits on a DVD. Seems likely that things are badly broken in debian-cd's task handling. Likely related to tasksel's new task-* packages. The way debian-cd needs to handle the new task packages is this: * Put task-gnome-desktop on CD#1, task-kde-dekstop on KDE CD #1, etc. (No need to use /usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-tasks.desc anymore.) * Try to include at all Recommends of task-* packages, not only their dependencies, as this is used to pull in the majority of packages for tasks. Do this even when normal Recommends inclusion is disabled. * If space is tight, drop some of the task-* Recommends. And, since this needs to be special cased anyway, it would be nice to have an option to abort the build, and/or warn if they don't fully fit. -- see shy jo
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