On 18 December 2016 at 01:44, Trans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 17 December 2016 at 14:40, john delport <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Best regards John. (End user) >> >> >> Then an experimental distro such as this is not for you. >> >> I suggest Ubuntu or Mint. >> > > That is not a constructive response. And it comes off a bit condescending. > Gobo has enough issues with attracting users without pushing them away with > stuff like this. > > I think John makes an excellent point too -- to include a hefty paint > program but no file manager seems odd. I'm all for the idea of mean and > lean, then install what you need after the base system. But to me that would > mean not including Gimp too.
I agree. Gimp ended up in the ISO as an indirect dependency of CUPS. One thing we wanted to include in the ISO was basic support for some kinds of hardware, including printers. Since we were short on time and we're no longer constrained by the size of a CDR, we ended up not focusing on shrinking the actual file size of the ISO, but rather reducing the number of top-level programs we worked on configuring (configuring a file manager and making sure mimetypes etc are correct is a lot more work). Having said that, consider adding Gimp an oversight. I want to make the main ISO smaller in the next release, so Gimp probably won't be included. It might be available separately as a binary package since we always build it in new systems anyway, but it's hard to make promises about binary packages, given we don't have a proper CI system in place. (The ones currently available are more like a bonus done in a best-effort basis.) -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users
