Re: Debian GNOME Policy, Mark II
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:42, Joe Drew wrote:
> As well - should gnome-vfs-extras2 be among the dependencies for the
> gnome metapackage? It's now Suggested by libgnomevfs itself, but the
> desktop as a whole is enhanced by it..
I was thinking about this recently. Basically the question is: how
closely should our "gnome" package reflect upstream's idea of the GNOME
Desktop?
I'm thinking about making a "gnome-core" package which would serve that
role, and then having our "gnome" package be very featureful; to the
point of possibly say recommending abiword, evolution, galeon, and
rhythmbox for example (and gnome-vfs-extras2 of course). So the "gnome"
package would reflect our best-of-breed applications, and give you a
full working desktop environment, much like what happens with an initial
installation of Red Hat 8 (AIUI). This would be installed by default
with the desktop task. People who don't want all this could simply
install gnome-core instead, and then pick and choose the apps they want.
This split is basically analogous to the distinction between
"x-window-system" and "x-window-system-core".
In fact, if no one has any serious objections, I think I'll do this with
the next meta-gnome upload.
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