My apologies for the inappropriate report. I am new to Linux, (it's been about two months now), and even newer to Debian, (about 3 weeks). There's a whole culture here in which I don't yet know my way around; sometimes I feel like Alice falling down the rabbit hole!
Best Regards Paul Taylor ----- Original Message ---- From: Josselin Mouette <[email protected]> To: Paul Taylor <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 2:52:23 PM Subject: Re: Bug#563712: Cannot remove Gnome-games, Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, Rhythmbox without removing Gnome Le lundi 04 janvier 2010 à 11:13 -0800, Paul Taylor a écrit : >> Current Behaviour: Using Aptitude or Synaptic to try to remove >> Gnome-games, Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, or Rhythmbox, >> results in an inability to remove these packages without removing >> gnome and/or gnome-desktop. Indeed. > Expected Behaviour: Using Aptitude or Synaptic to try remove any of > the applications listed above, (and any other applications on which > the basic functionality of Gnome does not depend), should result in > the removal of the application(s) specified without removing gnome, or > gnome-desktop, or any other critical components. You seem to completely misunderstand the purpose of gnome and gnome-desktop-environment. These are metapackages, not regular packages. Removing them is not going to break any functionality per se. > With the exception of Remmina, (which was not installed), I have > removed all of the above apps from Gnome 2.26 running on Ubuntu > Intrepid without any problems, so it's clear that these dependencies > under Gnome 2.28 on Debian are spurious. I am sure there are many > other users who will never use some or all of the above apps, (and > probably others as well), and we should be able to remove these apps > and reduce system clutter without breaking Gnome. If you don’t like the default package selection, it’s very simple: don’t use the metapackages. This package selection is here for random people with 100GB+ disks (like all disks sold for the last few years), who don’t care about “system clutter” and just want a working desktop. If you want a system with reduced size, there is a gnome-core package which only depends on the required components. > Because it's a toss-up whether this is a Gnome problem or a Debian > packaging problem, I have filed it with both Gnome and Debian. (I > filed the report with Gnome before having read the Debian direction to > not file upstream). This is completely unrelated to upstream. I don’t know what makes you think that they would have anything to do with our metapackages. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling __________________________________________________________________ Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail: http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/newmail/overview2/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
