On 05/11/2025 15:02, Sebastian Kraus wrote:
using these two variants
[*] Debian desktop environment
[*] ... GNOME
[*] Debian desktop environment
[] ... GNOME
works completely fine and you will end up with a fully featured GNOME
desktop environment :)
Thanks for testing. Since the topic starter has not clarified their
question, I do not think more efforts should be put in this discussion.
In my case it is pure curiosity if there is some diff of "dpkg
--get-selections" output in both cases. However precise behavior might
change till the question will arise next time.
[] Debian desktop environment
[*] ... GNOME
installation completely fails X(.
For me failed installation sounds like a serious bug, but I have no plan
to spend some time to confirm it.
It's seldom a good idea to deselect/uncheck
essential/standard installation tasks. You will end up in a
uncomfortable situation.
My current system started with no DE at all. My intention was to avoid
some packages and I accepted inconvenience caused by
'APT::Install-Recommends "0";'. From my point of view, installer should
be flexible.
