[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

Thu Mar 22 12:42:53 CET 2012

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Wolfgang Bornath
+<molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2012/3/22 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+>> I care about GNOME and giving
+>> a full experience. If people want a more minimal install to the
+>> detriment of GNOME, then I don't like it.
+>
+> Well, no comment on the other parts of the mail, but:
+>
+> Despite your commitment to Gnome, isn't this for the user to select
+> what he wants?
+
+Please, don't mix up things. That bug is about a *SUGGESTS* not a
+requires, it is also not part of task-gnome itself, but of
+gnome-keyring.
+
+It is perfectly reasonable to have a suggests on seahorse from
+gnome-keyring. It is the only sane thing to do I'd like to add.
+
+totem (and even more so its mozilla plugin) tearing in all this is the
+bug. Don't blame Olav here.
+
+> If he wants a minimal installation, knowing that he may
+> not get the full Gnome experience, isn't that for him to decide
+> instead of being forced to pack things on his machine he does not care
+> for, whether you like it or not?
+
+A suggested package is not forced on anybody.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+