‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, June 29, 2020 7:14 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 06/29/2020 08:40 AM, David Bridges wrote: > > > Not a derivative suggestion but maybe this will help. > > When you start the installer if you choose the Expert installation (I > > believe under advanced section) or if you press the Escape key and type > > expert at the boot prompt you can get a very minimal system installed > > although there will be a few more questions that you have to answer > > along the way. > > The trick is when you get to the package selection screen to uncheck > > everything except for Standard System which will give you only a basic > > system with no gui. > > A very fine workaround. Been doing that for years for different problems > <GRIN> > > My current problem is the official Debian installer is effectively > broken. It forces you to accept packages which the repository tags as > "recommended". The problem is those packages prevent ME from using > MY system for MY intended purposes and workflow <GRUMBLE> > > So I'm looking for whatI consider a WORKING installer ;/ > > > On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 08:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I like Debian very much. > > > However its default installer coerces an undesirable collection of > > > "must > > > have" applications. > > > I want a MATE desktop with a very sparse selection of apps installed > > > by > > > default. I've discovered that the installer is designed NOT TO > > > implement an equivalent of apt-get's "no-install-recommends". > > > I want a system that allows the use of the standard Debian > > > repository > > > but whose installer does not forcibly coerce the installation of > > > undesired apps. > > > Suggestions? > > > TIA Nothing new, I seem to remember, before the Debian installer added all the meta-packages for DE's, there was an option to opt into an 'individual package selection" screen, could have been 'dselect". Not any more. I do not know of any distro's installer that does what you want. I have always done the base + standard here. I use Trinity Desktop (TDE) so I have always had to add that repo to sources.list.I install "dselect" which allows for managing recommends and suggested. Devuan has added a "console" meta-package. Impressive selection of apps for the cli. greg
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