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[Kenneth Parker <755210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Title:
  Gnome Light Version

Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Seeds:
  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.

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