On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 21:23:20 +0200, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > The Debian desktop environment installs task-desktop. This package > > recommends desktop task packages. task-gnome-desktop is the first one > > listed, so it will be the one installed. In that sense, the installer > > does know what the default is. > > > > Suppose a user installs with base-installer/install-recommends set to > > false. With the Debian desktop environment being the only option ticked, > > a user would not install task-gnome-desktop but would get xorg and > > enough software to use X. The suggested scheme would not cater for this. > > When during a Debian install a random user gets in front of the tasksel > dialog, they probably don't know about this complex behaviour. I think > we should make this dialog less ambiguous to let users know what boxes > to check according to what they want.
A user sees a dialog with only only Debian desktop environment selected. Activating this gets him what is displayed. Nothing ambiguous there. A user deselects the only ticked entry and activates the choice. I think we can agree that a desktop is not installed. Another user deselects the only ticked entry and ticks MATE instead. He expects MATE to be installed. Where's the ambiguity? > Do you think the behaviour "without Recommends" should be an option > presented to the user? No. -- Brian.