As things stand it doesn't seem to be honoured anymore, but I feel many users really appreciated that no matter which Puppy they used, certain core utility/apps were always available (including less than perfect PPM tho that was always problematic so I'd vote for that being optional addon only).
I do think a common set of guaranteed utils/apps remains an attractive feature, so would recommend a discussion on finding an agreed set to always include and particularly for reasonably small util/apps.
A problem, for a long time, is that woof-CE included always certain P_apps by default, and there was no attempt to adopt other sometimes newer and maybe better alternatives that came along. For example, personally, despite its relatively small size, I have really never liked Pmusic (or Pfind for that matter, tho not so bad, but there are so many nicer reasoably small and fast search utility apps around). Pmusic seemed to forever cause problems for me, often leaving zombie processes hanging around and hard to kill. Maybe I am alone with that issue/ dislike. Nevertheless, I'd go with the forum agreed choice (but not just Puppy stewards unilaterally deciding to force their babies via woof-CE onto the rest of Puppy users world).
Similarly, as I've said before, I'd rather like to see KL distros agree a common set of expected core utils/apps (those of smallish size and none of them need to be mine! 
). In fact I'd rather like KL to, as far as possible, usually include same agreed set of core util/apps as Puppy choosed to offer, though some differences likely in multi-user supporting KL world.
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