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

[Johannes Lips]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rich Mattes <richmattes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani <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?
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>> Do the groups already provided in comps.xml[1] not work for this task?
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>> Currently, one can use yum's groupinstall option to install the gnome,
>> kde, xfce, lxde, mate, and cinnamon desktops and desktop environments.
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>> Rich
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> Well, those groups are not exactly minimal.
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I also really like the idea, because I just recently had this issue. I got
a bug report, that one of my packages was not working properly under Gnome,
but I didn't want to install the whole Gnome Desktop group, because this
would be a real overkill for just checking the functionality of a program
on a different desktop.
So yes, I definitely would love more minimal desktop groups without all the
apps, for which I most probably already have working alternatives.

Johannes

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