Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> writes: > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 09:39 +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it. > Well actually it's not that easy to avoid all of it, at least you get > some libraries even when using 3rd party GTK/GNOME apps. Meh. That's not really using GNOME, that's just having some libraries installed. I used a variety of GNOME applications on WindowMaker systems and on fvwm2 systems before I ever used the GNOME DE, and am continuing to use some intermittantly under Xfce. Other than occasionally getting annoyed that installing one package I'm interested in pulls in 30-odd shared libraries and related support packages, it's mostly a non-issue. The average user who doesn't carefully monitor every package installed on their system wouldn't even notice. The only time that's annoying is when there's a dependency bug that causes some application to pull in some GNOME system component like NetworkManager, but those are bugs and they generally get fixed fairly quickly when they turn up and generally aren't intentional. (And those are different than the topic of this thread, which isn't about application dependencies, but about the dependency chains of core GNOME desktop components.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/8738nqdxj1....@windlord.stanford.edu
