On 12-07-10 at 06:34pm, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:10 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The very purpose of a meta-package is to _ensure_ that a certain set > > of packages is installed, not just recommend them: All (not only > > most) users of that package need all its dependencies satisfied - > > those that don't should simply uninstall the meta-package. > > Exactly! And as confirmation see below you will see gnome recommending > and even suggesting, which is probably fine:
[lots of more or less unrelated package dependencies snipped] > The most logical is that gnome-core does not depend on > network-manager-gnome but the gnome package do. Indeed, experienced > users will install gnome-core and select the rest manually. I disagree: Looking at the many other dependencies of gnome-core, it clearly isn't meant as "smallest possible GNOME setup" but more "essential parts of what the upstream GNOME project has to offer" - as its package description also clearly reflects. When I want "smallest possible GNOME setup" i install gnome-session. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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