On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 23:43 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > tl;dr: Desktop tasks have unexpected (from the user point of view) > side > effects due to dependencies. This can be considered harmful since the > installer task selection can easily can trick a user into installing > a > "substandard" system.
I think the issue is we have a loose definition of "desktop", and expect task-gnome-desktop, task-lxde-desktop etc. to correspond to it. One solution might be firming up what our definition of "desktop" is, or at least, what minimum functionality should be provided by a task- desktop-* installation. If modemmanager/working 3G/3G configuration via GUI/[however this requirement is encoded] is considered part of that functionality, then the way forward would be one of a) adjust dependency chain so task-lxde-desktop preferred network- manager over wicd b) enhance wicd to manage 3G stuff c) add separate dependency on modemmanager (or whatever) | network- manager ... N) drop task-lxde-desktop (if none of the above could be achieved) However broadly I think this is tractable so I disagree with the premise that we need to dump desktop tasks. -- Jonathan Dowland
