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Desktop/Gnome does not install only `gnome` and `gnome-tweaks`

Open osalbahr opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Hello,

After selecting Desktop -> Gnome (and nothing else) I was a bit surprised that I had vim already installed. In the window down below, I thought that "Installed packages" listing gnome and gnome-tweaks means that these are the only packages/metapackages being installed (gnome is all that's needed, gnome-tweaks is neat to have). It's also cool that it installs vim, I was planning to install it anyways. But I was not expecting it (granted, I haven't read the docs).

Would it be possible/desirable to make it more clear in the script which packages are being installed as part of all Desktop profiles?

I think these are the packages:

  • https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/blob/f6106324eb71905df9b832eb973a08a1f45fa5af/archinstall/default_profiles/desktop.py#L23-L36

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osalbahr avatar Nov 16 '23 02:11 osalbahr

The displayed packages are per profile. We can possibly add the main desktop ones as well there in the list to avoid confusion. Or add them outside on the main selection

svartkanin avatar Nov 17 '23 02:11 svartkanin

A improvement PR is up, it will display all packages for the main profiles as well as subprofiles and GFX drivers

svartkanin avatar Jan 30 '24 11:01 svartkanin