Heh. Just being a little tongue-in-cheek here.
I needed to do a fresh installation of Debian on two systems for friends this weekend. I tried both stable (7.1) and the 10/02/2013 daily of testing -- both of them the netinst image. For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I was at the Gnome desktop. (Partying, barbecue, and our wives and children were involved -- so I wasn't watching the process as closely as I might have, otherwise.) While doing routine upgrades on my own systems I had run into a situation somewhat related and reported by someone else at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718855. Okay. So I installed Debian testing without a DE, and then tried to add xfce-desktop via aptitude. I saw that I was still going to get Gnome and canceled the operation. So, I just added xfce and lightdm packages and then added other stuff a piece at a time until I got both systems configured. This wasn't a huge deal for me, but I'm pretty sure that no newcomers to the Debian distribution are installing Xfce or LXDE from a daily image of testing or from the stable image. (I didn't try KDE. Maybe it works because, surely, it doesn't use network-manager-gnome.) >From my perspective, it looks to me as though the problem is network-manager-gnome's desire to install gnome-control-center. Xfce and LXDE both want network-manager-gnome, so they also get gnome-control-center, gnome-session, and just about everything else gnome-like. For such an annoying bug, it seems like this has been around for quite some time. It might not be serious to Xfce per se, but I'd think the Debian community would be concerned about it. People trying new installations aren't being given the choices advertised in the d-i. Or am I missing something? Anyway, friends and I had lots of time to drink because of the extra time required for installations -- so not such a bad thing for us. But for those reading this list, maybe this report may not be as lucid as one could hope for! ;-) Jape -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5251ac8f.9040...@comcast.net