[Mageia-dev] task-gnome-minimal: depend on X somehow?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 14/03/12 10:15 did gyre and gimble:
> On 14.03.2012 10:11, Olav Vitters wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 05:14:17PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
>>> In https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4138, the reporter did a
>>> minimal installation, then opted for task-gnome-minimal.
>>>
>>> This doesn't install X apparently.
>>>
>>> Should it? In case of a really minimal installation, it could be that
>>> you're using everything remotely.
>>>
>>> I could have task-gnome-minimal have:
>>>    Suggests: task-x11
>>>
>>> I'm hoping is enough for a working X.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>> Ping. I'd like to resolve the bug (FIXED/WONTFIX) but I have no clue on
>> what is right. "NEEDHELP"
>>
> KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Window Maker require task-x11

While technically a minimal install could do the whole remote thing, I
think we need to be somewhat pragmatic here and add the require. It's by
far and away the biggest usage pattern and all it does for the
minimalist users is bloat their install. I think we should live with
that for now. A more complete infrastructure for dealing with e.g. thin
clients could be investigated later and applied holistically to the
other DEs too.

Col

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