On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote: > retitle 608098 RFP: gnome-martin-eric-racine - metapackage for Martin-Éric > Racine’s needs > reassign 608098 wnpp > kthxbye > > Le lundi 27 décembre 2010 à 08:07 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : >> The massive migration of dependencies from gnome-desktop-environment >> to gnome-core is extremely undesirable, because it spoils the >> usefulness that gnome-core used to have in pulling just enough >> packages to have a basic GNOME environment. Now, instead, it pulls WAY >> too many packages and leaves the user without any simple method for >> installing basic GNOME components. > > The gnome-core package is not here to fulfill the needs of a given > user. > > If you need a specific set of packages, please make your metapackages > yourself. See brdesktop-gnome for an example of such a recurrent > failure.
Sorry, but am I the only one who considers this reply as pointlessly abrasive, inappropriate and offensive? Regards, Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimwkng1q_3hdbswbmwf+sm+hurrdce9snjjw...@mail.gmail.com
