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[Mystilleef <mystilleef@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Chris,

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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755210

Title:
  Gnome Light Version

Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
  Incomplete

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.