Gnome Light Version

[Mystilleef]

When I was a Gentoo user, in another life, they had a package called gnome-light. gnome-light was a minimalist installation of GNOME. It included only packages needed to run the most basic Gnome Desktop (nautilus, gnome-panel, gdm and their dependencies). No browsers, no email clients, no chat program, no games, almost no desktop application was installed in gnome-light. The idea was that users would choose which desktop application they'd install and only the ones they needed. For example, back then people preferred Galeon over Epiphany or Thunderbird over Evolution and so on. In other words, people installed packages as they needed them. It was a system administrator's dream come true.

Now Gentoo's package management system is a lot more flexible than Debian's as far as I'm concerned so I don't even know if this is possible. However, if this is possible with Debian, it'll be nice if there was a Gubuntu-light CD or a gnome-light meta package. This package would include only packages needed to run a functioning Gnome Shell, nothing more. Administrators will then have the option of choosing which email client, web browser, word processor or desktop applications in general they want to install.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

This is a good idea. Metapackages are *really* easy to make, just update the metapackage-map, debian/control, and all corresponding dependency and recommends files.

[dino99 (9d9)]

that s will be a good and expected alternative to Lubuntu on small/old sized hardware, not everyone need those fatty metapackages, let users to customize them as they need.

[hrhnick (hrhnick)]

I feel like a minimal GNOME would almost constitute a project in it of
itself.
On Apr 9, 2011 10:30 AM, "dino99" <email address hidden> wrote:
> that s will be a good and expected alternative to Lubuntu on small/old
> sized hardware, not everyone need those fatty metapackages, let users to
> customize them as they need.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Gnome Remix Team, which is subscribed to ugr-meta.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755210
>
> Title:
> Gnome Light Version
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I was a Gentoo user, in another life, they had a package called
> gnome-light. gnome-light was a minimalist installation of GNOME. It
> included only packages needed to run the most basic Gnome Desktop
> (nautilus, gnome-panel, gdm and their dependencies). No browsers, no
> email clients, no chat program, no games, almost no desktop
> application was installed in gnome-light. The idea was that users
> would choose which desktop application they'd install and only the
> ones they needed. For example, back then people preferred Galeon over
> Epiphany or Thunderbird over Evolution and so on. In other words,
> people installed packages as they needed them. It was a system
> administrator's dream come true.
>
> Now Gentoo's package management system is a lot more flexible than
> Debian's as far as I'm concerned so I don't even know if this is
> possible. However, if this is possible with Debian, it'll be nice if
> there was a Gubuntu-light CD or a gnome-light meta package. This
> package would include only packages needed to run a functioning Gnome
> Shell, nothing more. Administrators will then have the option of
> choosing which email client, web browser, word processor or desktop
> applications in general they want to install.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Actually, it wouldn't be a big project to do this. As long as the main UGR project has all the needed parts, it just requires a metapackage update.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Ta-da! I've registered the ugr-lite blueprint for the Lite version of UGR.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

I'll begin work on this as soon as I can.

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Hey Chris,

I see you updated the status to incomplete. Are you guys puttings this on hold temporarily?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, unfortunately. We need to focus on getting UGR launched. We will try to incorporate a lite release for the Oneiric release.

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Cool, thanks

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

If someone looks in the code for ugr-meta and ubuntu-desktop minimal
and creates a list of target packages, I will be happy to add it, but
I don't have the time to do it myself.

On May 5, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Mystilleef <email address hidden> wrote:

> Cool, thanks
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to UGR
> (Ubuntu Gnome Remix) Project.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755210
>
> Title:
> Gnome Light Version
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
> Opinion
>
> Bug description:
> When I was a Gentoo user, in another life, they had a package called
> gnome-light. gnome-light was a minimalist installation of GNOME. It
> included only packages needed to run the most basic Gnome Desktop
> (nautilus, gnome-panel, gdm and their dependencies). No browsers, no
> email clients, no chat program, no games, almost no desktop
> application was installed in gnome-light. The idea was that users
> would choose which desktop application they'd install and only the
> ones they needed. For example, back then people preferred Galeon over
> Epiphany or Thunderbird over Evolution and so on. In other words,
> people installed packages as they needed them. It was a system
> administrator's dream come true.
>
> Now Gentoo's package management system is a lot more flexible than
> Debian's as far as I'm concerned so I don't even know if this is
> possible. However, if this is possible with Debian, it'll be nice if
> there was a Gubuntu-light CD or a gnome-light meta package. This
> package would include only packages needed to run a functioning Gnome
> Shell, nothing more. Administrators will then have the option of
> choosing which email client, web browser, word processor or desktop
> applications in general they want to install.

[Kenneth Parker (sea7kenp)]

Is there any chance that the Debian and/or Gnome projects will be interested in this? As one who installed Ubuntu 12.0.4 Server and then made the mistake of entering something as silly as "apt-get install gnome", I'd REALLY love to see this, as even server administrators might need to do occasional desktop activities.

Thank you and best regards,

Kenneth Parker, Seattle, WA