On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:16, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:15:41PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:00, Colin Walters wrote: > > > I'm thinking about making a "gnome-core" package which would serve that > > > role, and then having our "gnome" package be very featureful; to the > > > point of possibly say recommending abiword, evolution, galeon, and > > > rhythmbox for example (and gnome-vfs-extras2 of course). > > > > Which would be the selection for the Desktop task - gnome-core or gnome? > > > > Oh, and you'll want to choose a different name, since gnome-core already > > exists (and is a gnome 1 package, apparently). gnome-base? > > gnome-desktop and gnome-desktop-core ?
That might be confusing, as there is an upstream package called 'gnome-desktop' (and indeed, Debian has some libgnome-desktop and gnome-desktop-* packages). This may be a dumb (and quite off-topic) question, but why do you need virtual packages when we have a tasks system? > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther >

