On 10/25/2019 10:21 AM, J.Arun Mani asked questions that don't have
short answers.
I'll respond with what I hope will be _thought_ provoking questions.
He did not describe his background nor frame of reference.
What has influenced my viewpoint?
1. Introduced to computing as an engineering student in early 60's.
2. My 1st Personal Computer was 6502 based with 8kB RAM.
3. My career included customer support, engineering support, QA/QC, and
"other duties as assigned" [chuckle].
Hi.
I recently installed Debain Buster GNOME Edition.
[QUESTION1]
Why was GNOME chosen?
I found a lot of apps which are rarely used by me.
[snip list of specific applications]
[Question2]
After using query at
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
specifying either "Package names only" or "Descriptions" as appropriate,
"What do they _all_ have in common?"
I feel that though, apps excluding the starred ones might have a use,
{...} by a particular community and not by all! {...}
"Is there a valid reason why Debian includes {...} by default?"
[Question3]
The simplistic/specific answer to OP's question is "Yes."
Referring to answer to Question2, "What design goal(s) are satisfied by
the those programs?"
And will uninstalling them (all apps mentioned above) cause any trouble?
Depending on "how removed", troubles could range from trivial to
*CATASTROPHIC*!
Consider:
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all
of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people
all of the time” -- John Lydgate
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the
time." -- P.T. Barnum(?)
Would I have made the specific choices made by Debian team? -- No.
Were their choices reasonable? -- Yes.
HTH ;}
