Release Included Packages, light or heavy? Options

[InSearchOf]

I know it is hard as a dev to say does the community want this... Do they want that.... Or do they want neither.

This is why I ask this question. I'm not asking for what packages everyone would like (will be brought up later)
But would you want to have a base rom with very little packages (xfree,wm, utils, term app, text editor)

Or beef it up with the above and im client, web browser, mail app, word processor, etc.

I would like to know if the we (community) are a do-it-ourselves kind of group or would rather have it there and ready out of the box even if there may be unused apps

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[Capn_Fish]

I saey leave it pretty minimal, but with enough stuff so that it doesn't appear minimal to the extreme.

I know I for one like to use my own builds of things for two reasons:

-They're usually newer
-They're built with my CFLAGS, my options, etc, so I know what features are included and which aren't

I suspect leaving stuff open/not included is a good idea because you don't know what app somebody will want for a certain purpose. Take web browsing, for instance. I like Links2, but somebody else may like Dillo, another person may like Firefox, and another may want Lynx. This also keeps some deps out that people may not know to remove (I for one don't know all of the libs I can safely remove), leaving more space for the apps they want.

On another note, I thought pdaX was going to move from XFree to Xorg. Or was that just a thought and not definate?

EDIT: A pdaX full/lite sounds good to me. Also, maybe this should be a poll?

This post has been edited by Capn_Fish: Sep 6 2007, 10:24 AM