Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> writes:

> On 27/03/12 17:09, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>> So what do others think?
>
> I think that we need to separate the notion of a debian desktop from
> the GNOME or KDE desktops.  Synaptic is probably quite rightly not
> part of either, but I agree that a "default desktop" via install
> should provide a GUI package manager.
>
> A Debian "desktop" should be a superset of KDE-desktop | GNOME-desktop
> | LXDE-desktop etc. + things such as a GUI package manager.
>
> I doubt this is something that could be achieved in time for wheezy.

Shouldn't there rather be a base-desktop that both KDE-desktop and
GNOME-desktop depend on? A meta package that depends on everything any
desktop should have.

MfG
        Goswin