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

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 12:03:11 CET 2012


On 14 March 2012 11:51, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>> I could have task-gnome-minimal have:
>>>>    Suggests: 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.

Should be a suggests then rather than a requires then.
It'll OK for end users.
Note that real end users would use the installer which pulls task-x11 :-)


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