Comment 3 for bug 755210

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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> 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.