Re: Anyone maintaining obsoleted freedesktop and Gnome2 packages?

["OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 02:02:55 +0900, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> It sounds like you could like to update a bunch of gnome2 stuff from wip
> versions.   As far as I'm concernd that's good and our gnome2 packages
> ought to be up to the latest releases.  If no one else speaks up in a
> few days, I'd say go for it.

I don't want to touch Gnome2 packages anymore, touched it, claims came.
So I want to do it by themselves.

Few days is too short, probably few years are required.
You should know about status of updating XFce packages.

> Semi-related, I have a gnome-minimal package that I have never
> committed.  I find the gnome meta-package to be crazily bloated.
> Perhaps it's that the standard gnome environment has too many things and
> the package accurately reflects that.  But I have wanted a way to
> install just the desktop environment, with terminal, file manager,
> panel, applets, etc. but without any applications.   One can then
> install applications as needed.   I don't know how this relates to your
> mate packages, but if there's a mate meta-package, it would be nice to
> make a mate-minimal that has just enough to have a functioning
> environment and leaves off image viewers, pdf viewers, and everything
> else that can reasonably be separated.  Then mate can depend on
> mate-minimal, so people who want everything get it just as easily.

My recommended packages are xterm with twm, simple and lightweight.

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