Hello, I'm posting here because I believe that there are many dependencies in both gnome and gnome-desktop-environment that could be optional software to most users.
As examples we have browsers and mail software should not be mandatory. They could be just recommended allowing to the user decide to have it or not in the system. Take a look at evolution for example, his libs use around 90MB and most of GNOME users never use it since webmail systems like gmail are here to stay. I'm not shure how eveything else on gnome depends on evolution and evolution-data-server to keep them as Depends and not recommended. ekiga is very good, I use it, but for the sake of flexibility and disk space saving it could be recommmended too. The same for totem, except on the fact that I don't use it. A package providing a minimal desktop environment with the gnome look (which is in my opinion the best) should be available and then provide other packages depending on it, like gnome-browser (with flexibility to choose which one to install), gnome-music (with exaile or rythym box), gnome-video (with totem or mplayer), gnome-openoffice and so on. There could be also a package gnome which is the actual gnome. This would allow users to have a gnome based system fitting closer to their needs, without changing the whole gnome at all. It is also a good way to provide a flavor of gnome small enough to please users and builders of live systems with both gnome look and specialized software in "small" capacity media. Hope to hear from you soon Thanks in advance, Alexandre -- =============================================================================== Alexandre Lymberopoulos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
