On Do, 2011-03-17 at 01:44 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 17 mars 2011 à 00:39 +0100, Milan Niznansky a écrit : > > gnome-full is very developer-logical but IMO not really intuitive for a > > user > > > > I would suggest "debian-desktop" or "gnome-desktop",its name shall speak > > for itself for Debian hacks and beginners alike. > > But it would be confusing with gnome-desktop-environment, and with the > gnome-desktop source package. > > > However, Even if the "gnome" package gets a better name, the issue of > > its problematic removal will still stand. > > > > Probably not only me would feel it more intuitive if its direct > > dependencies are installed(or marked) non-automatically in default > > install. So that when user tries to remove some of them they do not run > > into the issue I and the OP have. > > > > IMO it is a much rarer situation someone wants to remove gnome per se > > than getting rid of just a few packages here and there. > > And for removing gnome he needs a guide regardless while the packages > > could be installed in a way their removal is effortless. > > This is the most frequent request about the metapackages. It would be > possible to mark a larger part of their dependencies as Recommends, but > unfortunately, the way APT currently works, they would not be installed > upon upgrades. APT supports special-casing meta package dependencies as manually installed based on sections, and a section is requested in Bug#574851, although ftpmaster did not want comment it in its one year of existence.
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