Idea: "{Gnome,KDE,Xfce,...} Minimal Desktop" groups

[Sandro Mani <manisandro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

From time to time, when setting up virtual machines for testing, I miss a fast way to install the minimal set of packages which allows me to boot into the desktop of a desktop environment. Currently, I do a minimal install, then install some core component, i.e. gnome-shell, and then hunt the logs to find out which other packages are missing.

So, what about creating groups for the various desktop environments which pull in basesystem + xorg + mesa drivers + displaymanager + bare desktop shell?

Advantages I see are:

* Users can quickly set up test environments for various desktop environments

* It would make side-by-side installation of desktop environments more pleasant

* It might help considering enabling the yum option "clean_requirements_on_remove=1" by default, since even if something goes wrong, the user will not end up with a missing desktop next time he or she reboots

* It might help fixing some package dependencies

Opinions?

Thanks,

Sandro

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