Ken Heard composed on 2016-07-17 11:49 (UTC-0400):
I want to do the same for my TDE installation. To start I tried as you suggested to install tdm-trinity and tdebase-trinity, but the return message was the same one received after my first attempt described in my original post. I will now wait until after Slávik deals with the dependencies issues.
Maybe you should try minimalist again. Could be your particular failings with this method were mirror issues that have since solved themselves rather than broken gnuift and/or poster requires.