Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

["Magnus Therning" <magnus@therning.org>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:28 PM, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> Eduardo M Kalinowski writes:
>> Look for some package like gnome-minimal, gnome-core, etc., that installs
>> only the minimal requirements, then install other parts as necessary.
>
> You can do that if you want to, but it isn't necessary.  Just install the
> packages you need.  The package management system will take care of the
> dependencies.

If you want those kind of minimal packages they are easy to create,
especially if you base your work on the existing Gnome meta-packages.

I used to do that during that brief period when 'gnome' depended on tomboy.

/M

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