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I'm running the MATE 20.04 installer and through most of the process it is removing files. I suspect this is a general issue rather than one specific to MATE but I mention MATE to be complete.

For example :

Completely removing libreoffice help

I have checked 'minimal install' so perhaps that's why? If so, is this the usual process? I would expect that a minimal install would download fewer file. I choose it to have a faster install but perhaps this is not the right approach.

Stephen Boston
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The 'minimal' install options was added via a 'list of packages to remove'.

The fastest install is to install everything (which isn't installed package by package for speed reasons), then if minimal install was selected, the packages on the minimal list are removed. Thus a minimal install option is a full-install, followed by removal of list of packages.

Martin Wimpress (Ubuntu-MATE project lead) has spoken about this a number of times on Podcasts, often because he was asked questions about it, but that was years ago so sorry, I didn't look them up.

guiverc
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