Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

Hi,

I added a few CCs, and added below a quote that I should have added to 
the original mail.


On 11/5/21 12:50, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:

Hi,

I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI 
turned on) with the same netinst image .


I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop 
environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE installation.


It does.

a)
| [ ]  Debian desktop environment
| [*]    XFCE

b)
| [*]  Debian desktop environment
| [*]    XFCE

Using (b), I end up with 12 more installed packages.  I checked that 
there weren't any available upgrades after installing both (apt-get 
update && apt-get upgrade showed 0).


The offending list is:

hv3
libsqlite3-tcl
libtcl8.6
libtk-img
libtk8.6
tcl
tcl-tls
tcl8.6
tcllib
tk
tk-html3
tk8.6

Maybe there's a bug somewhere in tasksel?

I did some tests running tasksel again after the installation, and were 
intriguing, but I'll hold the deeper tests for after this is inspected.




Sorry, I forgot to quote the previous mail:



> I think the goal of the menu design was to accommodate
> a first time user who has no experiential background
> to chose a specific desktop.  If you chose
> "Debian desktop environment" AND a specific desktop,
> the specific choice overrides.

So I proved that this is not what is happening.

Cheers,

Alex


--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/



Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

Hi,

I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI 
turned on) with the same netinst image .


I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop 
environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE installation.


It does.

a)
| [ ]  Debian desktop environment
| [*]XFCE

b)
| [*]  Debian desktop environment
| [*]XFCE

Using (b), I end up with 12 more installed packages.  I checked that 
there weren't any available upgrades after installing both (apt-get 
update && apt-get upgrade showed 0).


The offending list is:

hv3
libsqlite3-tcl
libtcl8.6
libtk-img
libtk8.6
tcl
tcl-tls
tcl8.6
tcllib
tk
tk-html3
tk8.6

Maybe there's a bug somewhere in tasksel?

I did some tests running tasksel again after the installation, and were 
intriguing, but I'll hold the deeper tests for after this is inspected.


Cheers,

Alex


--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/