[Mageia-dev] About dm

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/2/17 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 14:24 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit :
>> Am 17.02.2012 13:13, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
>> > As I understand the "minimal" task it should only provide the packages
>> > to run a respective environment. Chat or other such functionalities do
>> > not belong in a minimal installation.
>> >
>> > As for your example: when you set up gnome-minimal and after that
>> > install a chat application it should be this application package's
>> > task to draw all necessary dependencies (like gnome-contacts).
>>
>> I agree with wobo here. The "-minimal" tasks should only install a basic
>> desktop meaning in case of KDE (which I know better then GNOME) no
>> kdepim, no kdegamees, no kdeedu and so on.
>> It should be similar with GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and so on.
>
> Then you just install kwin, or gnome-shell.
>
> Each time, there is 1 single rpm for that already existing.

The Gnome base is more than gnome-shell but less than Gnome in total.
Example: Gnome config editor belongs to the basic Gnome, eog is a
Gnome application. Same with KDE: kdm and the setup configuration are
related to the environment, kmail is a KDE application.

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wobo