On 08/08/14 00:29, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014, Jordi Mallach wrote: >> Well, it's roughly that time. :) So I'd like to plainly request GNOME >> is reinstated as the default desktop environment for a number of >> reasons. > > One of the reasons put forward for switching to Xfce was size on the > installation images; could you (and/or debian-cd) address this? > > Specifically:
> 1) Would you want the default CD/DVD image to use a GNOME > even if GNOME was unable to fit on a single image? I think the first CD/DVD should have whatever we choose as the default. > 2) Would the GNOME > team consider a less-complete DE for cases where image size is a > restriction? Yes. If there wasn't enough space, we could drop some not very important modules (e.g. a few games), try a stronger compression ratio, symlink /usr/share/doc directories... We'd need some numbers here but we could work something out. Cheers, Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e49467.5010...@debian.org
