What is your philosophy in this? Install as much xfce related apps as
possible or keep the install minimized and let people simply add more
apps with an app-install like application? To me it would seem better to
keep things minimized to keep working with the often less harddisk space
on older hardware.
There are not many strictly xfce appplications so all will be installed by default.
So the install is still minimal although the disk size is not yet the final one.
currently, al large part of that being a copy of the .deb files to the disk, besides just
installing them.
The ubuntu way of installing a complete desktop environment with even
some duplications in software is probably a bad idea in this case. The
Ubuntu makes a point of _not_ installing duplicates . We don't either afaik.
CD is the default repository so everybody will have it within reach at
install time, however I don't known what the live-CD to HD install
options are with installing more packages from the live CD afterwards.
we'll see once the liveCD is ready.
It the app-install is just to add the huge apps from gnome and kde
people should install ubuntu or kubuntu and live with the memory
footprint they will get anyway by installing those gnome/kde apps on top
of xfce.
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it's not just for kde/gnome apps, it's use beside the easy UI is for 3rd party apps outside
the ubuntu repos.
Jani
PS: If you are going to work on for dropping gnome hard-deps take a look at the most recent update-manager
package to see how to provide an alternative to gconf. ( fakegconf.py).
Then coordinate your patches with Michael Vogt.
thanks
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