Re: Debian GNOME Policy, Mark II

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com>]

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:16, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:15:41PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:00, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > 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).
> > 
> > Which would be the selection for the Desktop task - gnome-core or gnome?
> > 
> > Oh, and you'll want to choose a different name, since gnome-core already
> > exists (and is a gnome 1 package, apparently). gnome-base?
> 
> gnome-desktop and gnome-desktop-core ?

That might be confusing, as there is an upstream package called
'gnome-desktop' (and indeed, Debian has some libgnome-desktop and
gnome-desktop-* packages).

This may be a dumb (and quite off-topic) question, but why do you need
virtual packages when we have a tasks system?

> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
>