[Mageia-dev] About dm

Fri Feb 17 15:50:45 CET 2012

2012/2/17 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 14:24 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+>> Am 17.02.2012 13:13, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
+>> > 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).
+>>
+>> I agree with wobo here. The "-minimal" tasks should only install a basic
+>> desktop meaning in case of KDE (which I know better then GNOME) no
+>> kdepim, no kdegamees, no kdeedu and so on.
+>> It should be similar with GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and so on.
+>
+> Then you just install kwin, or gnome-shell.
+>
+> Each time, there is 1 single rpm for that already existing.
+
+The Gnome base is more than gnome-shell but less than Gnome in total.
+Example: Gnome config editor belongs to the basic Gnome, eog is a
+Gnome application. Same with KDE: kdm and the setup configuration are
+related to the environment, kmail is a KDE application.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+