Hi, I've been interested for years in dropping gimp and inkscape from the gnome metapackage. I believe these are the last 2 packages keeping the gtk2 library in our default install. But more importantly, I don't think they are needed by most of our users. I think every other app we offer in the default install is relatively simpler to use (except for LibreOffice but an office suite is considered basic functionality).
I'm unaware of any other distro making the decision to include those apps in the default install, at least not in recent releases. Ubuntu included gimp by default until 10.04 LTS and never included inkscape by default (except in a relatively unknown "DVD" variation of Ubuntu). Some people were hesitant about my proposal when I've brought it up before so I'm asking more directly now so we can agree together about whether to make this change for Buster. https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/meta-gnome3/merge_requests/2 https://bugs.debian.org/883441 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
