On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
Colin Walters (walters@verbum.org) said:
> > Those packages aren't part of the desktop group; they're part of the
> > base group.
>
> We should move all of the "traditional Unix" bits out that aren't actually
> hard required (talk, rsh, rsync, man-pages) into a separate group, or
> alternatively switch desktop to somehow depend on @base[required].

Well, we could have a comps file that defines groups like...

But that's a fairly large shift in design.

There is a question how far to go, however, I think one could not argue that the base group's description "This group includes a minimal set of packages." is not really accurate.

We could alternatively say that desktop doesn't include @base, and just rely on explicit dependencies.  But that would need case by case evaluation; prelink and pm-utils are obvious things we want.