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

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:14:47 +0200 schreef David Wright  
<deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>:

> [I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate post, but my first
> attempt was rejected by bendel.debian.org as forged.]
>
> Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@gmail.com):
> > 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.
>
> Which documentation? Without seeing it, we can't tell whether the doc
> is well-worded or not.

I think Rodolfo had read:
https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome

> GNOME (core only) 	
> gnome-core package 	
> This is a minimalist GNOME installation
> (You have to install all end-user applications later). Above packages  
> depend on this one.

and I agree that the sentence "You have to install all end-user  
applications later" is incorrect.
Even Iceweasel is a dependency of gnome-core. I didn't know that Mozilla  
is a part of gnome.

Floris