[Mageia-dev] About dm

Fri Feb 17 13:13:03 CET 2012

2012/2/17 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:36:46PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>> Then you don't need any hard dependency from any desktop
+>> environement against any display manager.
+>
+> That is the current situation though.
+>
+> Mageia only installs task-gnome-minimal. Not task-gnome. I only focus on
+> ensuring task-gnome works because I consider task-gnome-minimal to be
+> really arbitrary (I'd include most of task-gnome in -minimal).
+>
+> To see the effect of task-gnome-minimal, do a new installation and only
+> have task-gnome-minimal. Then setup some chat functionality, search in
+> overview mode, then click on a person. It'll result in the error message
+> that it cannot find gnome-contacts.
+> There are similar problems. Either lost functionality, or just error
+> messages.
+
+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).
+