Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

Op Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:28:29 +0200 schreef David Wright  
<[email protected]>:

> Quoting Floris ([email protected]):
>> Op Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:14:47 +0200 schreef David Wright  
>> <[email protected]>:
>> >Quoting Rodolfo Medina ([email protected]):
>> >>According to documentations, gnome-core package is considered to
>> >>be the very
>> >>minimal gnome installation in Debian.  But in my personal
>> >>experience it is not
>> >>so.
>> >
>> >Which documentation? Without seeing it, we can't tell whether the doc
>> >is well-worded or not.
>> >
>>
>> I think Rodolfo had read:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome
>>
>    > >GNOME (core only) 	
>    > >gnome-core package 	
>    > >This is a minimalist GNOME installation
>    > >(You have to install all end-user applications later). Above
>    > >packages depend on this one.
>
> [note: your quoting method for this wikitext
> makes it appear that I wrote it.]
[sorry]
>
>> and I agree that the sentence "You have to install all end-user
>> applications later" is incorrect.
>
> I think it's a case of Caveat Lector because this is a wiki page.
>
> 	"There are four options to install GNOME in Debian:"
>
> I'm counting five in the following list.
>
> 	"GNOME (core only) gnome-core package This is a minimalist GNOME  
> installation"
>
> People are minimalists, installations can be minimal. This one
> obviously isn't the latter, and doesn't itself claim to be.
>
> 	"(You have to install all end-user applications later)."
>
>> Even Iceweasel is a dependency of gnome-core. I didn't know that
>> Mozilla is a part of gnome.
>
> ... so there's *one* end-user application already installed for a start.
>
> 	"Above packages depend on this one."
>
> What does "above" mean? gnome-core appears not to depend on
> gnome-accessibility, the item immediately above it in the list.
> (Notwithstanding that gnome-accessibility is actually a package in
> squeeze, not wheezy.)
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

So the conclusion is that the information on wiki.debian.org/Gnome is
unclear and sometimes incorrect. I've added [email protected].
I understood they are the wiki maintainers.

Floris