Core group split
This was Bastien's suggestion during the guadec BoF.
The idea here is to separate the Applications from the underlying system. This would help better classify what we consider necessary to run GNOME and better categorize all our system components and daemons.
For example:
Currently we put in the core group the Shell, application and utilities. If we were to split the group, that would also mean pulling daemons like tracker
, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
, e-d-s
, g-o-a
, etc from core-deps. along with Shell, mutter, and utilities applications like Nautilus, Disks, Evince, eog, etc as the base for what makes our base "System" we define as GNOME.
(This is a non-exhaustive list, someone needs to volunteer into having a first pass at splitting this)
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