On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:44:38AM +0800, David Smith wrote:
>...
> Consider that a depends on gnome-icon-theme is added, then liferea
> isn't going to be installable unless the default gnome-icon-theme is
> installed. This doesn't make any sense as some people might want to
> use gnome-icon-theme-nuovo or gnome-icon-theme-suede or
> gnome-icon-theme-yasis or gnome-icon-theme-gartoon instead which do
> *NOT* provide gnome-icon-theme.
>
> Using these alternative gnome themes without the default
> gnome-icon-theme would make liferea uninstallable, if a depends on
> gnome-icon-theme is added, even though liferea would work just fine :(
Let me repeat something I already wrote in this bug:
<-- snip -->
For non-GNOME users of GNOME applications a dependency on
gnome-icon-theme can prevent serious problems.
When you have a full GNOME installed, gnome-icon-theme is anyway always
installed.
<-- snip -->
The case you are arguing about is about possibly saving a few MB of disk
space in a case where a user is using a non-standard GNOME icon theme
*and* he is *not* using a full GNOME.
Is that 0.1% of all Liferea users or 0.01% of all Liferea users that
might not need gnome-icon-theme?
And I want to emphasize that gnome-icon-theme does for such users as few
harm as the 400MB of translations on my disk do for me.
And yes, gnome-icon-theme and the translations are related issues:
If you would actually be serious in wanting to save a few MB on the
disks of people installing liferea, then splitting liferea-data into
2 packages would benefit much more users than not depending on
gnome-icon-theme. [1]
> Then finally... Liferea is *NOT* showing you the wrong icons if you
> don't have gnome-icon-theme installed. Rather, it's just using the
> GTK_STOCK icons instead of gnome theme icons. This appears to be
> intentional / planned by upstream.
>...
Exactly the same is true when the translation for the language of your
choice is not installed (as is intentional / planned by upstream,
English messages are displayed instead of translated messages), so
please start with getting translations splitted out of *all* packages in
Debian if you really believe in what you wrote.
> -David
cu
Adrian
[1] I don't think that would be a good idea, but allowing users to save
disk space is your intention here you must do it.
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