On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2016 04:11 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Debian has a tradition of chopping packages up. >> >> For Gnome, there's gnome-core and gnome. The former provides a minimal >> Gnome environment and the latter provides the full complement of apps. >> >> I assume that the Debian Mate maintainers followed the same pattern >> but I have no idea what mate-desktop-environment-extras might be. I >> assume that EPEL's mate-desktop corresponds to Debian's >> mate-desktop-environment. > > "assume" can be very dangerous.
Yes. But it's a fairly safe assumption because neither Fedora nor RHEL has ever followed the Debian model. Are you running "yum groupinstall mate-desktop" or "yum install mate-desktop"? On an X-less system: When I run "yum groupinstall mate-desktop", yum wants to pull in 540 packages and 410MB/1.2GB. When I run "yum install mate-desktop", yum wants to pull in 140 packages and 80MB/240MB.