Once you get used to the graphic mode menu and navigation, you'll see that you can do anything to the dependency chain with a pair of clicks (1).secipolla wrote:I'll check this aptitude graphic mode to start with (up to now I'd only used aptitude to downgrade packages).
Regarding the gnome-core move, IDK if a new package like the former gnome-core will be created but as it is now, gnome-desktop-environment is more of a gnome-extras as it doesn't add that much.
I agree with you in that the current gnome-core makes gnome-desktop-environment way less useful.
1. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=320585#p320585
The problem is not whether one build her system manually but that a system built from several pieces is more difficult to administrate than one built from a few ones. Meta-packages facilitate installation and administration.canci wrote:There are still ways though to have a much lighter Gnome, and even a somewhat lighter KDE for that matter.
And in Debian most of us build our systems individually, right?
gnome-shell will never be default in Debian, as it requires mutter, which requires working 3D drivers.
I think that Gnome Shell could easily be the default in systems with Intel video drivers, which are open-source and provide 3D features.