Your message dated Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:38:58 +0100
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and subject line inconsistencies of dependencies between gnome and
gnome-desktop-environment
has caused the Debian Bug report #474875,
regarding inconsistencies of dependencies between gnome and
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Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.20.2.2
Severity: normal
Hi.
There seems to be some quite interesting inconsistencies between the
gnome package and gnome-desktop-environment.
One of them is that the current version of gnome depends on
epiphany-extensions, while gnome-desktop-environment depends on
epiphany-browser | gnome-www-browser.
The latter would allow the user to install only iceweasel, for instance,
but trying to remove the epiphany packages installed breaks the
installation of gnome, uninstalling a lot of packages, unfortunately.
:-(
Perhaps this particular dependency could be a Recommends:? According to
the Policy section 7.2:
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Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I think that this would allow more flexible installations without
problems for those that want to keep their systems with extra software.
Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome depends on:
ii epiphany-extensions 2.20.3-1 Extensions for Epiphany web browse
ii evolution-webcal 2.21.92-1 webcal: URL handler for GNOME and
ii gdm-themes 0.5.1 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii gnome-cups-manager 0.31-3 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii gnome-desktop-environment 1:2.20.2.2 The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii gnome-games 1:2.22.0-1 games for the GNOME desktop
ii gnome-games-extra-data 2.22.0-1 games for the GNOME desktop (extra
ii gnome-office 1:2.20.2.2 The GNOME Office suite
ii gnome-themes-extras 0.9.0.deb0.3 various themes for the GNOME 2 des
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.7-3 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly"
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.22.0-2 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii rhythmbox 0.11.5-1 music player and organizer for GNO
ii serpentine 0.9-5 An application for creating audio
ii synaptic 0.61+nmu1 Graphical package manager
ii tomboy 0.10.0-1 desktop note taking program using
ii totem-mozilla 2.22.0-2 Totem Mozilla plugin
ii totem-plugins 2.22.0-2 Plugins for the Totem media player
gnome recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito
Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org
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--- Begin Message ---
Metapackages are here to provide a default set of packages. If you want a more
flexible installation, don't install them, or install one that has what you want
(like gnome-core), and add other things on top of it.
Closing.
Emilio
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