Hi there, I am on board with providing some predefined lists of packages.
I raised the idea of providing smaller lists of packages that might go well together instead of one large %desktop-packages. One reason to do this, for instance, might be to not make someone who wants to use btrfs always import the ext4 packages. Or not lock someone into using nettools if they are using iproute2, etc. Similarly, I think that many users, myself included, use a manifest file to manage user packages. It would help to have finer grained package lists so that the manifests could reuse them and not be requiring system basics along with it. What do you think? - John