On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 17:05:35 -0500 Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been several requests for something like this. gnome-core > is intended to closely match what GNOME upstream considers to be core. > Some people want to have more control over what apps are installed. > > My initial thinking for a name for this metapackage is gnome-minimal. > > I'm not sure what this metapackage would look like. Would it be as > simple as Depends: gnome-session, gdm3 (which will ensure that > gnome-shell, gnome-control-center, and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome are > installed)? > > Should it have Recommends on many GNOME Core apps? Which ones? > > I guess it should have Suggests for all the GNOME Core apps. apt will > keep a suggested package installed if a package that had previously > depended on it or recommend it no longer does that or is no longer > installed. > > Thank you, > Jeremy Bícha > Thanks so much for your attention! IMHO, gnome-minimal is accurate name and it can suggest all the GNOME Core apps. Back to my basic idea, what I really needs is actually an installer menu, GNOME Core, Gnome Minimal or whatever. To realize a desktop with simplicity, I need to do a minimal installation with no selections. Then I boot into debian and apt install gnome-core. I guess it will be hard to persuade installer author to add a third GNOME option, apart from GNOME and GNOME Flashback. Thus I put forward an idea to reduce the difficulties to simplify GNOME. I will also be happy to have a gnome-minimal package to enhance customization :) gnome-minimal -> gnome-core -> gnome Three stages. Best regards, EiPi Fun/Don Xu, Dec 5, 2025
