[idea] Bundle less software by default (at least on the minimal version)

[anon89812132]

You mentioned

@squidink7

see things like the avahi and v4l2 utilities, as well as yakuake and gsmartcontrol

For avahi please read this and also look in the archived forum why is not possible to be removed:

Manjaro 20.1 Mikah got released

Boots perfectly fine on my two over 10 years old Desktop PC that only have Legacy BIOS. Both free and nonfree driver options for my Nvidia GPUs now load the live session perfectly fine. Previously i had to use nonfree option, always. If you are talking about Live Session, then manjaro is what you are looking for. Was always the case in live session for user and password. I just opened Pamac, refreshed database and installed Krita that is not included in live media. It works. By the way, i…

v4l2 - is a requirement for ffmpeg and a make depend for qt5-base
yakuake - is a 1,8 MB - mostly useful if Plasma crashes but yakuake works, so you don’t have to switch TTY
gsmartcontrol - is only installed in Gnome and Xfce editions

@squidink7

I feel it would help the growth and spread of Manjaro as a popular Linux distribution.

People that migrate from Windows or MacOS do not know what to expect, and don’t know what the above packages do, so, with or without them, they will still have to test at least a Live Session.
Also, how those packages influence Manjaro popularity?
Thanks for your feedback.