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Package: task-desktop
Version: 3.39
Severity: wishlist
User: [email protected]
Usertags: misc-reported
Hi,
I'm using Wayland, and I would like to remove X.Org from my system.
I don't care much really, for my own use case: I can live with the
disk space cost. But once GNOME switches to Wayland by default in
Debian (uninformed guess: in Buster), perhaps we can trim down a bit
the (default) desktop installation images by not including X.Org
in there. Removing xorg, xserver-xorg and the packages automatically
installed because of them saves 8 MB on my system, so granted that's
not much and may not be worth the effort.
I see:
$ aptitude why xorg
i task-gnome-desktop Depends task-desktop
i A task-desktop Depends xorg
What can possibly go wrong™ if we replaced:
Depends: tasksel (= 3.39), xorg, xserver-xorg-video-all,
xserver-xorg-input-all, desktop-base
with something like:
Depends: tasksel (= 3.39), xorg | wayland, xserver-xorg-video-all | wayland,
xserver-xorg-input-all | wayland, desktop-base
?
FWIW, task-desktop seems to have no reverse-build-deps, so this should
not affect buildds (that don't prefer the first alternative) for
existing packages.
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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Hi,
Jeremy Bícha (2026-02-27):
> Can we close this bug?
Yes, thanks!
> tasksel 3.86 a few months ago has:
>
> * task-desktop: stop depending on xorg packages directly, to get prepared
> for wayland. See MR!46 for more details.
>
> gdm3 49 still pulls in some xserver pieces. Debian GNOME has no
> interest in not installing xwayland. And libx11 is still a dependency
> for many things. But Debian GNOME does not include xserver-xorg any
> more in Unstable and Testing.
This sounds like the best realistic goal we can hope for, great!
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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