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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] About dm</H1>
+ <B>Olav Vitters</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] About dm">olav at vitters.nl
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+ <I>Sat Feb 18 14:43:36 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 02:15:40PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+&gt;<i> I see your point and understand upstream POV of Gnome. The other POV
+</I>&gt;<i> is the user's POV who wants a &quot;minimal&quot; installation with Gnome as the
+</I>&gt;<i> basis but with a few applications only. IMHO this is what a
+</I>&gt;<i> &quot;task-foo-minimal&quot; is made for. So after this task-foo-minimal I have
+</I>&gt;<i> to install only :
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+I agree that some want something minimal and that it should be possible.
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+What I dislike is not that people want something minimal, but that
+the minimal one is installed by default instead of task-gnome. I can
+understand people wanting a more minimal installation and that should be
+possible. But at the moment, the minimal installation is the default and
+by default it is diverted from upstream. Or at least that is what
+happened when I installed Cauldron via internet + done by the Mageia
+installer. I still hope for some hidden magic to have task-gnome on the
+DVD.
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+&gt;<i> - web browser (for mail, www, downloads),
+</I>&gt;<i> - mc (filemanager),
+</I>&gt;<i> - vim (editor),
+</I>&gt;<i> - vlc (music, video),
+</I>&gt;<i> - mcc (including the draktools). Done.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> (just an example of what I would do for my netbook, others may want
+</I>&gt;<i> another set of applications).
+</I>
+I'm not saying it should be impossible, my point is that that by
+default, you should install the whole thing, unless knowingly selecting
+a minimal installation.
+My idea behind Mageia is that by default, it just works. I want to be
+sure then when handing out a Mageia DVD, I know that no hand-holding is
+necessary.
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+&gt;<i> Going by the upstream POV we don't need a task-gnome-minimal at all,
+</I>&gt;<i> you can safely remove it.
+</I>
+That is my point of view. Only have task-gnome. And within task-gnome
+use &quot;Suggest:&quot; for those things which could be removed if someone really
+wants an minimal installation. At the moment, the &quot;-minimal&quot;
+installation is different from upstream, yet that is installed by
+default.
+IMO, users knowingly choosing a minimal installation should be the ones
+which might get error messages like a missing gnome-contacts, etc. Not
+people who just install Mageia. I
+
+E.g. you'll get errors if gnome-contacts is not there. But if you really
+care about minimal and don't use the functionality, then it should not
+be impossible.
+
+I have the feeling that after Mageia 2, there will be unneeded
+bugreports due to differences with upstream. IMO, such bugs can and
+should be avoided.
+
+--
+Regards,
+Olav
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