To the Debian Installer Team,
Whoever decided to eliminate granular package selection and force everyone into
broad, opaque tasksel bundles completely missed the point of basic system
architecture. Forcing an experienced administrator through an automated
bottleneck that defaults to heavy desktop bloat, only to require them to
manually purge that junk post-boot, is an utterly broken and brain-damaged
workflow.
An installer has one fundamental job: execute the precise parameters defined by
the person installing it. It is not there to make paternalistic assumptions or
try to be "smart" on behalf of the user. Stripping away fine-grained package
control under the guise of simplification completely compromises the utility of
the distribution for minimal, headless, and enterprise environments. It
introduces completely unnecessary overhead and remediation steps that have no
business existing in a professional-grade operating system.You do not dictate
broken workflows to the community that actually relies on your system for real
work. The engineering logic here is completely counterproductive and needs to
be fixed. A direct, non-automated path that completely bypasses tasksel and
restores individual package selection must be reinstated immediately. Until the
installer natively respects the absolute requirement for minimal deployments,
this is going to remain a point of persistent friction.
