[Tails-dev] Wheezy: dont ship gnome shell?

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Author: Alan
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Subject: [Tails-dev] Wheezy: dont ship gnome shell?
Hi,
>
> Done in commit:47eea3b5a0ff58555182fb1560154f0141ac4afc.
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> Feature #5806: wheezy: dont ship gnome shell
> https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5806
>
> Author: Tails
> Status: Resolved
>
> don't ship GNOME Shell, else it's auto-selected on hardware that
> supports it (and eats space uselessly)
>

I remember we decided to *disable* gnome-shell by default, but to ship
it unless there is a good reason not to. There is a dconf setting to
disable the shell (/org/gnome/session/session-name set to
gnome-fallback) so I fail to see the good reason not to ship it.

Did I miss something?

Cheers