"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> writes: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Julio Merino wrote: > >> So here comes an idea: what about renaming meta-pkgs/gnome to >> meta-pkgs/gnome-desktop to match upstream, > > Sounds good. And the DESCR note that it matches upstream (and point to a > URL for that list). Agreed, and especially about DESCR. >> and then we create another package (be it gnome-lite, gnome-pkgsrc, >> gnome-suggested, gnome-supported, gnome, or whatever) that provides >> what *we*, pkgsrc, think is a more reasonable set for our users? > > That sounds good. (sorry for being redundant with previous mail) Agreed, but there's a subtle point that out gnome-base(whatever) is not about what we think is reasonable for a user to have installed. It's about providing a simple way for a user to install a set of stuff that we think many such users will want. I would expect that most people would install gnome-base and then pick a few more things that they actually want. There's no intent to tell people what they should do - just "If what you want is basic gnome and a few programs but not everything, install gnome-base and then the extra things you want." Put another way, I see pkgsrc as a bit less about being normative and a bit more about making common wishes easy to satisfy. (I think we're in agreement but thought I should say this explicitly.)
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