Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-04 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 04/07/2025 5:32 pm, David Wright wrote: On Fri 04 Jul 2025 at 07:04:32 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote: Excluding two or three packages is much easier, and the suggested approach of appending a - works perfectly if the package was not installed. In which case, I think you should install

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 04/07/2025 5:56 am, David Wright wrote: On Thu 03 Jul 2025 at 18:15:42 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote: On 03/07/2025 5:28 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Federico Kircheis wrote: And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt. It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core. It still

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 03/07/2025 5:28 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Federico Kircheis wrote: On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote: And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt. It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core. It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to in

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote: The only issue I have with tasksel, is that sometimes I wish a more minimal environment. Then don't use tasksel to install package(s). Yes, this is what I am doing, but then I need to manually track all packages installed by tasksel, and list all t

A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-06-29 Thread Federico Kircheis
Hello, I normally install a desktop environment with tasksel, as it installs at configures most programs that are to be expected in a user-friendly desktop environment: * login manager * power management * network manager and so on and so on. I do not know most programs that are needed in

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-06-07 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 07/06/2025 9:02 pm, Federico Kircheis wrote: On 07/06/2025 7:12 pm, Luca Saiu wrote: On 2025-05-25 at 16:30 +0200, Federico Kircheis wrote: But dx is still packaged for Debian, it's part of the dalvik-exchange package, It would be nice but unfortunately no, per dalvik-exchange 10.0.

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-06-07 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 07/06/2025 7:12 pm, Luca Saiu wrote: On 2025-05-25 at 16:30 +0200, Federico Kircheis wrote: But dx is still packaged for Debian, it's part of the dalvik-exchange package, It would be nice but unfortunately no, per dalvik-exchange 10.0.0+r36-4 . After installing it I see: [luca@hen

Re: parallel gnu and parallel from moreutils

2025-06-04 Thread Federico Kircheis
On 02/06/2025 3:24 pm, Anssi Saari wrote: Federico Kircheis writes: I could not find any information if something like the following has already been proposed (and eventually rejected): moreutils should also provide /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils, even if gnu parallel is not installed(!) gnu

parallel gnu and parallel from moreutils

2025-06-01 Thread Federico Kircheis
Hello, Debian provides two parallel executable one from the parallel package (gnu parallel) and one from the moreutils package. When both packages are installed, /usr/bin/parallel is gnu parallel, and /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils is parallel from the moreutils package If only moreutils has

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-25 Thread Federico Kircheis
and I can't figure out how to get the dx command, because on my Debian Bookworm system there is no such command! Can this problem be solved so that I can access on my system only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian? dx is deprecated, you should use d8, see http

Building an Android bundle (aab) with tools available in Debian

2025-05-23 Thread Federico Kircheis
Hello, I know there is already a similar thread, I did not want to hijack it, since the topic is slightly different. Debian currently provides all tools required for creating an apk (and I assume also an aar). Unfortunately it seems to be missing one tool for creating an aab: bundletool

kotlin package and dependencies

2025-05-17 Thread Federico Kircheis
Hello, I'm using the kotlin package since I wanted to use the kotlinc compiler, and noticed that it lists following packages as dependencies * ant * libmaven-compiler-plugin-java * libmaven-plugin-tools-java * libmaven3-core-java I'm not using ant or maven, so this install (through tran