Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 04/12/2015 02:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to be the very
> minimal gnome installation in Debian.  But in my personal experience it is not
> so.  Just after installing Debian, I installed gnome-core just to have the
> minimal gnome installation.  Then I noticed that totem, the video player, was
> also installed even though I hadn't.  Since I use mplayer, I did `aptitude
> purge totem' and was surprised to see that gnome-core depended on totem, so
> that removing totem would also remove gnome-core.  I did so, and now gnome
> desktop environment, even without gnome-core package, seems to work well.  So I
> ask to myself what gnome minimal install should really be.  I have Sid.

Gnome loves to pull in Evolution as well. I would think that a choice of 
email client would be left to the user. Since I can't have one without 
the other, I pushed the red button and now have neither. :) Ric



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