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

[Sandro Mani]

On 29.04.2013 20:10, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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).

To make an example:
gnome3: "Minimal Install" + mesa-dri-drivers xorg-x11-server-Xorg 
xorg-x11-drivers gnome-session-xsession gnome-shell telepathy-logger 
(and possibly control-center)

(FWIW, I guess telepathy-logger should be a dependency of gnome-shell)