Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Thu Aug 21 18:07:35 PDT 2003


On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:04:30 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke 
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:56, progman wrote:
>> need information about what is the minumin install for the gnome 
>> package.
>> thank you...WacK0
>
> The x11/gnome2 meta-port is the minimum GNOME desktop + development
> libraries need to support the desktop.  You could probably prune gdm,
> gnomeaudio, gnomesystemmonitor, libzvt, fileroller, acme, gnome-pkgview,
> and gnomegames2 out of there if you needed to save space.  Of course, at
> that point, you wouldn't be running the official GNOME 2 desktop.
>
> If you're light on space, you might consider another window manager that
> is a little lighter on resources.

You (WacK0) might like to check on Xfce4; it's nice, very fast, lighter and 
seems almost like a mini-gnome. :-)

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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