[Mageia-dev] About dm

Fri Feb 17 13:42:25 CET 2012

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:13:03PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 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.
+
+This is totally vague. GNOME has defined what modules are part of GNOME.
+task-gnome-minimal doesn't reflect that environment. Yet
+task-gnome-minimal still exists anyway. It doesn't give you GNOME, it
+gives you a few GNOME packages. To me the selection is "whatever runs
+without giving obvious errors messages".
+
+> 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).
+
+In my example, I didn't say that another chat application needed to be
+installed. I said that it is broken *by default*. Chat is integrated
+within GNOME. But broken in task-gnome-minimal. I don't get the reason
+behind task-gnome-minimal, so I am not touching this, nor adding a
+dependency from gnome-shell on gnome-contacts.
+
+It is just a random example, I noticed others. I test that task-gnome
+works, not task-gnome-minimal.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+