Various sources suggest either of the following:

- mate applications require many dependencies within MATE.
- I need mate-utils which I haven't packaged yet

I'll try mate-utils.
ng0 transcribed 3.3K bytes:
> I'm currently packaging MATE, but I'm not a very well experienced
> user of MATE. I'm used to modular systems where you can reuse
> applications outside of their bigger projects.
> 
> gnome-terminal can in theory be used in other WMs and DMs aswell.
> Except that with mate-terminal I had issues in a spectrwm - only system.
> In addition to "bug#28088: "The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files" with multiple applications"
> I get this in GNOME (where 28088 is a non-issue):
> 
> user@abyayala ~$ mate-terminal
> 
> (mate-terminal:841): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.mate.interface' is not installed
> 
> Trace/breakpoint trap
> 
> 
> I assume I might still lack an application in the graph though.. I have the very
> base of MATE now, and the test with MATE is with only mate itself being
> present.
> 
> The very base seems to be:
> mate-desktop, mate-menus, mate-panel, mate-session-manager
> mate-settings-daemon, marco, and optionally(?)
> caja, mate-control-center, mate-media,
> mozo, mate-terminal.
> 
> But I only experience issues with mate-terminal for now.. Marco/the WM itself
> is another issue.
> 
> This is what I have:
> 
> commit 380e1ca853794336e1874a2d555af6aebca2e42b (HEAD -> system/mate)
> Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 14 18:58:34 2017 +0000
> 
>     gnu: Add mate-panel.
> 
>     * gnu/packages/mate.scm (mate-panel): New variable.
> 
> commit 100357037d50a9ea8268152353210d67e9fd34b5
> Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 14 17:18:06 2017 +0000
> 
>     gnu: Add mate-session-manager.
> 
>     * gnu/packages/mate.scm (mate-session-manager): New variable.
> 
> commit 09502debf16798830f13f151818c856675c4d738
> Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
> Date:   Sun Aug 6 18:03:17 2017 +0000
> 
>     gnu: Add marco.
> 
>     * gnu/packages/mate.scm (marco): New variable.
> 
> commit 647e1d55d2b4f4f5a53d88aeac98d242e4ab108b
> Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
> Date:   Sun Aug 6 18:29:40 2017 +0000
> 
>     gnu: Add mate-terminal.
> 
>     * gnu/packages/mate.scm (mate-terminal): New variable.
> 
> commit ccde857f1e6bd7f059fde60d229b5df5f79e75c3
> Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
> Date:   Sun Aug 6 17:22:41 2017 +0000
> 
>     gnu: Add caja.
> 
>     * gnu/packages/mate.scm (caja): New variable.
>     
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