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

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Hi Goswin,

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Jon Dowland<jmtd@debian.org>  writes:
>
> >  On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:30:37PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >>  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.
> >
> >  I'm not sure if that's the right direction of dependency, conceptually.
> >
> >  The philosophy of (at least) the GNOME metapackages is (I think: but I
> >  am not (yet) a Debian/GNOME team member) that they provide what upstream
> >  GNOME provides.  So depending on a 'base-desktop' package would work
> >  against that philosophy.
> >
> >  (It might turn out to be the most pragmatic thing to do.)
>
> Gnome-desktop, not gnome. Gnome-desktop would depend on base-deskop and
> gnome and maybe a few more gnome-ish things that aren't in gnome.

I'm not sure what you mean by "GNOME-desktop" / "KDE-desktop" as opposed 
to "gnome".
But task-gnome-desktop already depends on task-desktop. This is a 
tasksel task, but it's also a real package now (obviously, the 
advantages of tasksel should be integrated with regular package managers 
at one point, and we should merge tasksel tasks and regular metapackages).