levi
Still fresh, damnit!
I'd advise anyone expecting a minimal environment from the get-go to moderate their expectations in this direction. This is debian we're talking about, and in my experience debian with gnome 2 back in the day, it'll ship with a webcam app (cheese) and image viewer (gpicview), but a crippled build environment. It may be difficult to thin things back after the initial release as well, as long as any dbps are built which quietly depend on libs shipped with any of the apps you want to remove.
If you're bothered about chunky menus, you can always delete the .desktop files from /usr/share/applications although that will result in corrupted packages which might make upgrading tricky, I'm not familiar with dpkg's peculiarities these days.
If you're bothered about chunky menus, you can always delete the .desktop files from /usr/share/applications although that will result in corrupted packages which might make upgrading tricky, I'm not familiar with dpkg's peculiarities these days.