Hello, A long time ago, I added a gnome-base meta package to pkgsrc. The purpose of this package was to provide a minimal but functional Gnome desktop system on top of which you could install additional applications -- only those that you planned to use. This package did not correspond to any of the official components defined by the Gnome project and so was removed from pkgsrc stating this reason. (Wow, it amuses me that this was almost 2 years ago and I didn't even notice!) Sure, I cannot complain at all about the removal of this package because 1) I relinquished maintainership and 2) the reason for its removal was valid. However, I'd like to resurrect such package. My motivation is that I would like to have a functional desktop running by using a meta package for it, but I don't want to have to build and install tons of packages that won't be of any use (e.g. all mono stuff and assorted bindings). Having the "gnome" package match what upstream defines as Gnome is nice in spirit, but not very practical. Would you object to a gnome-lite meta package that depends on a few desktop core components (such as the panel, the window manager, the session manager, etc.)? Basically a subset of the gnome meta package, and I know this subset is extremely subjective. I know such a gnome-lite package has no correspondence to upstream, but well, we *do* have the packages that have this correspondence. And no, I don't plan to make the gnome package depend on gnome-lite (which was the case before with gnome-base). Cheers, -- Julio Merino