Hello, On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I want to install greybird-gtk-theme, and only that theme. But due to > gtk2-engines-murrine recommending murrine-themes, effectively I get a > bunch of themes when I wanted only one.
I have a similar problem in Kali. The Kali theme uses this engine and as such we have "gnome-theme-kali" depending on gtk2-engines-murrine. When we build a Kali ISO image, we want to respect Recommends and we want gnome-theme-kali so we will get gtk2-engines-murrine and murrine-themes. The latter adds 2Mb on the size of the installed system for no gain (Installed-Size: 2 059 kB). I believe Ubuntu's theme is also based on murrine and might suffer from the same problem. I understand it made sense to keep the dependencies a long time ago when the murrine-themes has been split off but nowadays it no longer makes any sense. In particular since GTK2 is fading away and gtk2-engines-murrine is here mainly for the need of themes outside of murrine-themes that do provide GTK3 and GTK2 implementations. Can you please reconsider and drop this recommends? BTW, the package has not been moved from collab-maint into salsa yet. So I can't just propose a merge request. But I will gladly offer an NMU if you want. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
