Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
With regards to the suggestion that some means be provided for admins to easily install a subset of GNOME that suits the needs of government and/or US government ... On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 01:50 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_ > n

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul E Condon] > I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all > governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_ need to add them? Let the site administrator do it, using 'equivs'. If y

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:09:55PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I > gave to an off-lin

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I gave to an off-line communication because I thought it might be germane to the discussion. I have expanded my response a little. I have removed gnome, gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-games with no apparent side effects

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread cmetzler
> I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the