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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:48:13 +0100
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To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>, 25296@debbugs.gnu.org

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>>
>>> I'd vote for adding libreoffice and icecat to desktop.tmpl and not to g=
nome (since they are not part of the GNOME project).
>>
>> OK, why not.  There=E2=80=99s still the issue that it will make download=
 times
>> and disk size requirements longer (a problem we should fix, but this
>> won=E2=80=99t happen overnight.)
>
> While I think it's fine to include this in the example desktop
> configuration file, I don't see why we couldn't have a few example
> configuration files for various use cases.  One of those use cases could
> mimic what other distros normally include, like LibreOffice etc, and one
> of those could be a more minimal desktop environment.  Does it add a
> maintenance burden to have multiple example desktop configuration files?

Not much, though we=E2=80=99d have to make sure they still work.

The only difference in this case would be the =E2=80=98packages=E2=80=99 fi=
eld, which, I
was hoping, didn=E2=80=99t warrant a separate example.

Ludo=E2=80=99.