Peter Nieman <gmane-a...@t-online.de> writes: > As mentioned already in another posting, I think the best, if not the > only solution for Debian would be to split the whole thing in two, one > for desktop environment users and one for users who do not want a > desktop environment. Packages that only work in a desktop environment > should only go into the DE repository, while programs that work both > within or without a DE should exist in two versions, the non-DE version > being compiled in such a way that no dependency on any DE component or > library exists.
Perhaps no need to split into different repositories, just have different packages. For instance, we already have several packages with a '-nox' suffix to their name, which I've greatly appreciated. A '-nodbus', etc. might be nice too, gets rid of those "No D-BUS daemon running" messages and suchlike, and this reminds me of weird things I see like "The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files". Even XFCE4 can be compiled with various kinds of support disabled, or at least it could last I looked. Admittedly, there might be combinatorially many possibilities here -- at least too many to be practical -- and Debian already has a lot of useful tools surrounding building packages from Debian-patched source, so it's not been too bad to arrange some of this easily myself with the compile options I want, albeit perhaps with an envious eye toward Gentoo's USE flags. After all, sometimes I do want X support, I just don't want, say, policykit, or certainly not all the session/seat management that systemd seems designed to provide. > By the way, I am a desktop user, using fvwm. But I don't want all my > applications to "look and feel" the same, I don't want everything to > interact with everything, and I want to control my computer instead of > being controlled by my computer. Exactly. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wq7wtgl1....@ixod.org
