On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:36:48 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 07 septembre 2008 à 18:20 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] > > Also, I don't quite understand why attempting to install gnome-games > > (even without recommends) seems to pull in avahi, cups, foomatic, > > nautilus-burn, samba, ... > > Samba? I just want to play gnometris, there's no running Windows system > > that I can see, why should I need Samba ?!? > > None of these are in the dependencies of gnome-games, only the client > libraries are. You might want to analyze the chain of Recommends to find > what pulls them, I can assure you that it is not gnome-games directly > and that splitting it would have no effect on that issue: > for example, cups is brought by libgnomeprint which is brought by > python-gnome2-desktop. However I’m pretty sure that nautilus-cd-burner, > samba and avahi are not brought by Recommends.
I am under the impression that dependencies and recommendations between GNOME-related packages are a bit too tight... -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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