final touches to the desktop spin

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 1 20:29:56 UTC 2009


Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> > Those packages aren't part of the desktop group; they're part of the
> > base group.
> 
> We should move all of the "traditional Unix" bits out that aren't actually
> hard required (talk, rsh, rsync, man-pages) into a separate group, or
> alternatively switch desktop to somehow depend on @base[required].

Well, we could have a comps file that defines groups like...

core
base
debugging
legacy-unix
nfs-file-server
mysql
network-file-system-client
console-internet
directory-client
print-client
x11
general-desktop
... 
etc.

But that's a fairly large shift in design.

Bill




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