2012/2/17 Olav Vitters <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:36:46PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: >> Then you don't need any hard dependency from any desktop >> environement against any display manager. > > That is the current situation though. > > Mageia only installs task-gnome-minimal. Not task-gnome. I only focus on > ensuring task-gnome works because I consider task-gnome-minimal to be > really arbitrary (I'd include most of task-gnome in -minimal). > > To see the effect of task-gnome-minimal, do a new installation and only > have task-gnome-minimal. Then setup some chat functionality, search in > overview mode, then click on a person. It'll result in the error message > that it cannot find gnome-contacts. > There are similar problems. Either lost functionality, or just error > messages.
As I understand the "minimal" task it should only provide the packages to run a respective environment. Chat or other such functionalities do not belong in a minimal installation. As for your example: when you set up gnome-minimal and after that install a chat application it should be this application package's task to draw all necessary dependencies (like gnome-contacts).
