Because Nautilus is compiled with support for Zeitgeist, libzeitgeist is a required dependency. Zeitgeist is simply an activity log manager. If it were transmitting user's activities over the Internet, people would notice and there would be considerable complaining. It does act transparently. Install gnome-activity-journal to see what information is being collected. Or install activity-log-manager and turn "Record Activity" off.
CD burning is a useful feature for a file manager and Brasero is a good choice as it is the GNOME CD burner. Brasero is only a recommends so you can easily uninstall it after installing Nautilus. That being said, perhaps it should be a "suggests" instead of a "recommends"; the main meta-packages already depend on brasero or xfburn any way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096283 Title: Installing Nautilus in Xubuntu 12.10 pulls in Redundant Packages as Dependencies Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Nautilus (nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1) – when installed under under Xubuntu 12.10 using Synaptic – directly or indirectly pulls in Brasero, Zeitgeist and other application packages as dependencies. ― These additional packages such as Brasero and Zeitgeist are not requested nor required, only the file browser/manager Nautilus itself is. ― Further, these extra packages provide no essential or indispensable functionality to Nautilus itself. Nautilus is complete in itself as a file browser/manager. (The installation is on a series of some 100 netbooks which by their very design never have CD/DVD drives.) ― Zeitgeist, moreover, is a Stasi-like service — covertly and comprehensively snooping on, logging and chanelling information on user activities and events. As such, the presence of Zeitgeist is highly undesirable on professional Linux systems designed to be transparent in their behaviour, well-controlled and secure against information leakage. Superfluous dependencies not only result in wasted space and resources allocated to such undesired and undesirable packages. But this bug also concerns a core design principle: Linux packages should only be included as dependencies when they provide essential or indispensable functionality to the package that is actually and deliberately selected for installation. These redundant dependencies should therefore be removed from the Nautilus package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1096283/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
