Idea: "{Gnome,KDE,Xfce,...} Minimal Desktop" groups

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 04/29/2013 10:55 AM, Rich Mattes wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com 
> <mailto:manisandro at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> So, what about creating groups for the various desktop
> environments which pull in basesystem + xorg + mesa drivers +
> displaymanager + bare desktop shell?
> 
> 
> Do the groups already provided in comps.xml[1] not work for this
> task?
> 
> Currently, one can use yum's groupinstall option to install the
> gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, mate, and cinnamon desktops and desktop
> environments.
> 
> Rich
> 
> [1]
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/comps.git/tree/comps-f19.xml.in
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> 


If I understand the original request, his problem is that the
groupinstall (and the comps listing for default entries) is still too
heavyweight for him in some situations. He basically wants there to be
a GNOME-minimal, KDE-minimal, etc. option in the installer to get JUST
a working desktop shell and nothing else. No companion apps, etc.

I'm inclined to feel that this is a bit of a niche problem, frankly.
I'd like to see some more justification. In most cases, the default
set of packages are there because they're assumed to be the set of
things that most people would want installed if they're using that
desktop.

That said, if someone wanted to do the exploration, come up with those
minimal package sets and propose them for inclusion to comps.xml (with
the blessing of the related desktop SIG), I have no problems with it
myself.
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