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

[Kalev Lember]

On 29/04/13 16:58, Sandro Mani wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rich Mattes wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
>>> 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?
> Well, those groups are not exactly minimal.

We already have one set of minimal desktop functionality defined by the
critical path groups. There are groups for GNOME, KDE, LXDE, XFCE. I am
not sure how much they cover for other desktops, but the GNOME critical
path group should (hopefully) be enough to bring up a minimal Shell.


On 30/04/13 01:49, Sandro Mani wrote:
> 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)

Does this work for you well enough?
# yum install @critical-path-gnome


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

I'll look into adding the telepathy-logger dep to gnome-shell. I guess
something should have a dep on gnome-session-xsession as well, possibly
also gnome-shell.

Hope this helps,
Kalev