Hello OppaErich and anonproxy,
nice to see you have your gnome desktop back to work.
Let me remark: Installing the metapackes gnome or gnome-core is not the siduction way.
Theese packages have extended dependency lists to pull in everything that might be comfortible.
Package gnome
Depends: gnome-core, desktop-base, network-manager-gnome, aisleriot, cheese, evolution,
evolution-plugins, file-roller, gedit, gnome-color-manager, gnome-documents, gnome-games,
gnome-nettool, nautilus-sendto, gnome-orca, rygel-preferences, seahorse, totem, vinagre,
alacarte, avahi-daemon, gimp, gnome-media, gnome-tweak-tool, hamster-applet, inkscape,
libreoffice-gnome, libreoffice-writer | abiword, libreoffice-calc | gnumeric, libreoffice-impress,
rhythmbox, shotwell, simple-scan, sound-juicer, tomboy | gnote, tracker-gui, transmission-gtk,
xdg-user-dirs-gtk, cups-pk-helper, gedit-plugins, gnome-shell-extensions, gstreamer1.0-libav,
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, rhythmbox-plugins, rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder, rygel-playbin,
rygel-tracker | rygel, telepathy-gabble, telepathy-rakia, telepathy-salut, totem-plugins, libgtk2-perl
Recommends: browser-plugin-gnash, gdebi, telepathy-idle
gnome-core
Depends: libatk-adaptor, at-spi2-core, baobab, brasero, caribou, caribou-antler,
libcaribou-gtk-module, libcaribou-gtk3-module, dconf-gsettings-backend, dconf-tools,
empathy, eog, evince, evolution-data-server, fonts-cantarell, sound-theme-freedesktop,
gnome-calculator, gconf2, gdm3, glib-networking, gnome-backgrounds, gnome-bluetooth,
gnome-contacts, gnome-control-center, gnome-dictionary, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-font-viewer,
gnome-icon-theme, gnome-icon-theme-extras, gnome-icon-theme-symbolic, gnome-keyring,
libpam-gnome-keyring, gnome-menus, gnome-online-accounts, gnome-packagekit,
gnome-screenshot, gnome-session, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell, gnome-system-log,
gnome-system-monitor, gnome-terminal, gnome-themes-standard, gnome-user-guide,
gnome-user-share, tracker-gui | gnome-search-tool, gsettings-desktop-schemas,
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio,
libgtk-3-common, gtk2-engines, gucharmap, gvfs-backends, gvfs-bin, gvfs-fuse, iceweasel,
libcanberra-pulse, gkbd-capplet, metacity, mousetweaks, nautilus, notification-daemon,
policykit-1-gnome, pulseaudio, gnome-sushi, vino, yelp, zenity
Recommends: network-manager-gnome, anacron
My concern is not about speed. I happily would install all of those packages, but not as dependencies. I don't want to be bothered by every little packaging issue in that huge package cloud straight asking me "Do you want to remove gnome?". Why are theese extras not simply recommends? I think of it as packaging bugs. In fact this dependency hell has caused breakage even in the stable release (see
#715555 ).
greetings
musca