On 03/16/2011 02:32 PM, carolus wrote: > I'm just learning my way around debian, and I got the impression from > http://wiki.debian.org/tasksel that "desktop" would default to gnome.
It does, normally, but since live-build supports multiple possible desktops, it preseeds the appropriate variables based on which desktop task the user specified and that modifies the task selection accordingly, or else we would end up selecting gnome *and* lxde if we just specified "lxde-desktop desktop", as we surprisingly found before we made this patch. > I have not found any list of defined tasks that would include > lxde-desktop. I'm working from a browser; perhaps there is a complete > list of defined tasks available somehow from apt-get or aptitude but I > haven't found it. Desktop selection is a special case. Here's my understanding of why: Because install media can typically only fit all the base packages for one desktop on a single media, it is typically not helpful to offer choices of different flavours of desktop from the menu. Instead, it needs to be preseeded, and the standard install CDs/DVDs have special 1st images per desktop flavour that contain the desktop-specific packages. Of course, with a netinst, it is different, because you don't need all the desktop-specific packages on the media, so in that case, you can specify the preseeded option at boot e.g. append "desktop=lxde" at the boot prompt. This is described in the Debian Installer Guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-pkgsel Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
