Split app_server and all core GUI applications, translators, etc. into a haiku_desktop package

[waddlesplash]

As in title. This will remove a lot of dependencies from the core haiku package and potentially make bootstraps easier, as well as making it possible to boot the system in text-only (consoled) mode.

Perhaps after this, we can merge some of the other packages (like userlandfs) back into the haiku package, since it'll be smaller...

Tentatively assigning to myself.

[lelldorin]

Replying to waddlesplash:

As in title. This will remove a lot of dependencies from the core haiku package and potentially make bootstraps easier, as well as making it possible to boot the system in text-only (consoled) mode.

But the post-installation of system add-ons such as translators must not be omitted.

[waddlesplash]

But the post-installation of system add-ons such as translators must not be omitted.

I'm not sure what you mean by this...? The change proposed here should mostly be an "under the hood" one; users shouldn't see anything different in their system.

[korli]

I don't really understand what we gain from this: there are already boostrap specifics so that dependencies are kept minimal. Looks like unnecessary hassle.

-1 from me.

[waddlesplash]

The hassle should be entirely in the implementation, and after that should be rather minimal, no? Hence why I've listed this as an "enhancement". If I or someone else gets around to it, great; if not, it's not a major loss. But even if we do go with it, it shouldn't really increase complexity (but rather decrease it overall).

[waddlesplash]

DataTranslators were split out into a separate package, which removed a lot of dependencies from Haiku itself, which was the original goal of this ticket. So, no further change required, for now anyway.