Xfce on the installation DVD (was Re: Regarding XFCE wiki page)

Brock Hudson escapingsummer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 19:49:14 UTC 2011


On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:34:23 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 18.01.2011, 13:12 -0500 schrieb Brock Hudson:
> > Would it be appropriate to include the DVD, I know by default it
> > doesn't include Xfce but adding 1 additional repository before
> > installation allows you install more than just KDE and Gnome.
> 
> BTW: This is something we want to change for F15. We just need to come
> up with a few suggestions to free space on the DVD in order to
> convince release engineering.
> 
> Suggestions:
>       * eclipse-pde (82,1 MB)
>       * scribus and scribus-doc (21,4 MB)
>       * gnome-games-help (18,1 MB)
>       * evolution-help (16,7 MB)
> 
> To me eclipse-pde looks most promising: It's not required for eclipse
> and it's plugins but only for developing *new* eclipse-plugins. If we
> remove scribus we will have to mess the design-team and for the help
> packages with the GNOME desktop folks. ;)
> 
> Removing eclipse-pde will free enough space to include both Xfce and
> LXDE and more, say Moblin/Megoo or Sugar.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
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I would like to see this included. I will still edit the wiki for now,
in case the release engineers don't have the same sentiment as we do.
Would screenshots be appropriate? Not the whole desktop but the windows
so there is a visual reference on how to add that one extra repository? 


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