Comment 10 for bug 11381

Some greater granularity is definitely needed in the metapackages. Not sure
what "germinate" is, though. For desktop installation, for example, a bare
minimum to get the desktop up and going would be in ubuntu-desktop-essential.
Then other, mutually indepentent packages could be dependent on that. So a
minimum multimedia install could be unbuntu-desktop-multimedia, which would be
dependent on essential. Maybe ubuntu-desktop-multimedia-extended would more
stuff beyond just the basics, and would be dependent on multimedia.

Those of us who want to remove some of the stuff that we will never use,
evolution for example, or possibly Open Office if you use an alternative to
that, shouldn't miss important changes that get pushed out because the one,
giant, monolithic ubuntu-desktop package got broken.

Same should apply to ubuntu-base. Haven't dug into this, but there are likely
things here I might want to remove/replace at some point. Also it is likley
there are many packages in base that ubuntu-desktop doesn't actually need. So
here, again, an ubuntu-base-essential would be appropriate, along with a number
of parallel packages all dependent on essential that would add/extend
functionality of the base system.

I know the idea is to keep installation simple and down to as few clicks as
possible, but really, I don't think "ubuntu-desktop-mulimedia" or
"ubuntu-desktop-office-suite", for examples, would be too confusing.