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

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-04-29 19:49 (GMT+0200) Sandro Mani composed:

> Michael Scherer wrote:

>> minimal is not well defined.

> I would define minimal as the absolute minimal set of packages which
> allows the shell to load. This resulting setup is not meant to be usable
> without the user installing additional packages he or she wishes. So
> such groups would not be meant for "normal" users (whatever that means),
> but for developers and power-users which want to build up their setup
> from the bottom up.

I agree. Maybe a better word than minimal would be foundational (dependent in 
the generic sense of the word).
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