Re: Adding a gnome-lite package

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:53:37 +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
>Would you object to a gnome-lite meta package that depends on a few
>desktop core components (such as the panel, the window manager, the
>session manager, etc.)?  Basically a subset of the gnome meta package,
>and I know this subset is extremely subjective.  I know such a
>gnome-lite package has no correspondence to upstream, but well, we
>*do* have the packages that have this correspondence.  And no, I don't
>plan to make the gnome package depend on gnome-lite (which was the
>case before with gnome-base).

I for one would certainly appreciate this.  Since the gnome-base
package's removal, I've been maintaining my own version of it.  I don't
use half the stuff in any desktop environment, but I do like the
basics.

Cheers,

Dave