Okay, GarryRicketson. What I quoted from the stackexchange threads, I don't see those things mentioned in the installation manual. Let's take them one at a time.
If no specific desktop environment is selected, but the “Debian desktop environment” is, the default which ends up installed is determined by tasksel: on i386 and amd64, it’s GNOME, on other architectures, it’s XFCE.
You'll see the following note in section 6.3.5.2 of the amd64 and i386 versions of the installation manual:
By default, debian-installer installs the Gnome desktop environment. It is possible to interactively select a different desktop environment during the installation. It is also possible to install multiple desktops, but some combinations of desktop may not be co-installable.
In the same section of the installation manual for other architectures, the note says this:
By default, debian-installer installs the desktop environment. It is possible to interactively select a different desktop environment during the installation. It is also possible to install multiple desktops, but some combinations of desktop may not be co-installable.
Xfce is not mentioned anywhere in section 6.3. Perhaps it is mentioned elsewhere in the installation manual. But one can conclude that for the other architectures, "the desktop environment" is something other than GNOME. Fine. Moving on:
The Debian-desktop-environment option appears to add distro branding [...]
I do not see anything about that in section 6.3 of the installation manual. Do you? I mean, perhaps it's buried somewhere in the installation manual, but it sure hasn't been made easy to find. It looks like the poster was just guessing there, perhaps.
Finally, you wrote:
GarryRicketson wrote:
" Gnome will be installed as the default Desktop Environment, if you do not select any other. "
Except if you're installing for an architecture other than i386 or amd64, apparently.
GarryRicketson wrote:The term "Debian desktop environment" does not mean Gnome, or KDE, or any particular desktop environment, the Debian desktop environment is what ever Desktop one decides to install to Debian
Except if no desktop is selected, then the "Debian desktop environment" option
will install GNOME, unless you're installing for an architecture other than i386 or amd64, in which case the "Debian desktop environment" option with no other DE selected actually means Xfce, apparently.
Anyway, my point is that, in my humble opinion, and in the opinion of many other users (obviously), the tasksel section of the installer is not clear to many users, and the documentation is not clear to many users, either. It does not have to be this way, but it is. What keeps being repeated here is stuff like "It's clear to me, I see no problem" and "Read the documentation". Well, sir, I do read the documentation. And, as well, I have had to spend a lot of time reading detailed documentation for Arch, which is my other "main distro" that I run here. I know, I know, we aren't talking about Arch, but I thought that perhaps I should mention it.
But, whatever, personally I've been installing and running Debian for a long time now, and I really don't have any problem with getting the setups that I want, whether it be one DE or another DE, or no DE at all.
Too bad that you "waste" your time trying to help people, but of course, you're the one who chooses to do so, nobody's holding a gun to your head forcing you to do that. My suggestion to you is that if you want to help people, then just do that and quit complaining about it being a waste of your time. You're just irritating yourself (and others, perhaps) by trying to make people live up to your expectations, sir.
GarryRicketson wrote: Do you want me to also send a request to the development mail-list, and ask the developers to include additional text in the installer for you ?