[Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Fri Aug 8 14:19:28 UTC 2014


Jonas Smedegaard, le Fri 08 Aug 2014 16:11:58 +0200, a écrit :
> The following is on a wheezy chroot:
> 
> root at bastian:/# aptitude install task-gnome-desktop
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> [...]
> Need to get 370 MB of archives. After unpacking 1099 MB will be used.
> 
> root at bastian:/# aptitude install task-xfce-desktop
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> [...]
> Need to get 115 MB of archives. After unpacking 348 MB will be used.
> 
> Desktop needing 370MB versus 115MB seems pretty significant to me.

Actually it's 1.1GiB versus 348MiB. But that is barring the rest of the
desktop.

More precise measurements can be found in the installation manual, for
which we also install task-desktop etc. which ends up with 3.2GiB for
Gnome & KDE, 2.3GiB for XFCE, 2GiB for LXDE.

Samuel



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