On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > 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. Just after installing Debian, I installed > gnome-core just to have the minimal gnome installation. Then I > noticed that totem, the video player, was also installed even though > I hadn't. Since I use mplayer, I did `aptitude purge totem' and was > surprised to see that gnome-core depended on totem, so that removing > totem would also remove gnome-core. I did so, and now gnome desktop > environment, even without gnome-core package, seems to work well. So > I ask to myself what gnome minimal install should really be. I have > Sid. > > Thanks for any help,
Obviously, you've realized (or soon will) that GNOME's idea of a "minimal install" and your's (or mine) are diametrically different. You'll never get what you want. I know. I've tried. GNOME's "parts" are too integrated, too dependent on each other. That's one of the reasons I've abandoned it entirely. I like compact, light, fast systems. GNOME, once a reasonably lightweight desktop, has now become a leviathan. I suggest you look at LXDE. It's lightweight and very modular, and designed to easily choose what you do and don't want installed. lxde-common is what you install first. It only has one dependency lxsession. It's NOT a metapackage. LXDE does have one, if you just want a working desktop with little effort. It's called -- what else? -- lxde-core. Of course, if you really want TOTAL control of your GUI, a window manager is the way to go. That's what I did. Installed Openbox. The same WM that LXDE uses. A little more work, but worth it. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150412185554.47222...@debian7.boseck208.net
