Dear Josselin, thanks for your answer. I agree with you in one point: This seems to be wasting time.
It's not about metapackages or nut, this is a substantial question. But we are on controversy roads. As said, the (meta)packages gnome is essential and one of the most installed. Try to remove totem-mozilla on a fresh install. This will uninstall gnome, the network manager, update-manager and many many more. Stupid. Seems to be time for a new meta gnome-minimal. With best regards, Oliver Rompcik Josselin Mouette schrieb: > Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 à 00:20 +0100, Oliver Rompcik a écrit : >> That's an non-logical abstraction. Following this the metapackage could >> be >> dependend on everything. > > Sure. Feel free to package a ?everything? metapackage, that depends on > all packages in Debian. It should come very handy. > >> But following Debian Policy, expecially Chapter 5 and 7, a dependency is >> defined absolute precisely. It is written for "depends" that "This >> declares an absolute dependency". And here the requirement for such a >> dependency is not met. > > Why are you wasting so much time splitting hair? Is it your job, or just > a hobby? > >> But I'd like to repeat my question, which is still unanswered: >> >> Is there any technical reason for gnome beeing dependend on >> totem-mozilla >> (and why especially totem-mozilla, not for example mozilla-plugin-vlc)? > > BECAUSE METAPACKAGES ARE NOT A SUPERMARKET. > Can you read? > >> Or is it just YOUR preference, beeing one of totem's authors? > > No. Totem is part of the GNOME applications moduleset. VLC is not. VLC > will probably never be, since it has very poor integration with GNOME. > And since METAPACKAGES ARE NOT A SUPERMARKET, you don?t get to choose. > >> You know, gnome is an essential package > > I don?t see the ?Essential: yes? tag. > >> So what stands technically against altering the Depends to Suggests?? > > Nothing. This is not a technical issue. It?s just that METAPACKAGES ARE > NOT A SUPERMARKET. You don?t like metapackages, you are not forced to > use them. > > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' > `- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
