[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-gnome-3.3.2-4.mga2

Mon Feb 13 11:04:21 CET 2012

On 13 February 2012 10:55, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
+>> 1) for symmetry with task-kde4-minimal
+>>     It should be done in task-{lxde,xfce,..} of course
+>>
+>> 2) so that people performing minimal install then installing task-foobar
+>>     got mcc too
+>>     (it's done at installer time through rpmsrate which is not used after
+>>     installation by urpmi -- else nothing will pull it[1])
+>
+> It cannot be put somewhere else? Just wondering, I thought the
+> installation also was able to look at other things than just strictly
+> task-gnome-minimal (e.g. a generic "Graphical Desktop").
+
+Yes through rpmsrate, and again urpmi doesn't use it
+
+> Regarding minimal installation: if you really do a minimal installation,
+> then install GNOME. IMO, I would expect only GNOME related things, but
+> maybe that is more my assumption on why someone would do a minimal
+> installation.
+
+AFAIC one should get the same experience as when choosing the desktop
+during installation.
+What's more as it is a suggest, nothing prevent it to be removed.
+
+And it makes testing through urpmi more predictive regarding the installer
+
+We've move quite a lot of things from rpmsrate into task* over the years.
+That's just one more.
+
+>> 3) because that's the right place to do it
+>
+> To me it doesn't seem like the logical place. GNOME doesn't require
+> drakconf, nor does KDE. It is something part of the distro. So as soon
+> as anything graphical is installed, you'll likely want it.
+
+Again, this is not a strict require but a suggest
+
+What's more we don't have a better place and strictly speaking:
+1) task-gnome* doesn't actually require any of the packages it either requires
+    or suggests
+2) a GNOME desktop doesn't really require a cd burning tool or a browser or
+    whatever in order to show up & work...
+   so the same could be said to most requires & suggests.
+
+> To be clear: Not objecting or suggesting to change; clearly you have
+> more experience. Just wondering and trying to learn :)
+