On Sat, Jun 16, 2007, Josh Triplett wrote: > Just as gnome-desktop-environment depends on epiphany-browser | > gnome-www-browser, please change the dependency on gnome-screensaver to > gnome-screensaver | xscreensaver. This will keep gnome-screensaver as the > default, while allowing users with xscreensaver installed to avoid installing > gnome-screensaver.
This is not going to happen; however, the meta-packages will probably make use of Recommends instead of Depends when APT properly enforces these, and you'll be able to override the maintainer's strongly recommended setup to use gnome-screensaver. We're not going to list every window manager, every screensaver or every browser in the GNOME meta-package, only software with a correct level of integration with GNOME gets included. Your example above takes a good example: "gnome-www-browser" which represents all packages providing GNOME integration: GNOME-VFS support, session support, GNOME HIG etc. -- Loïc Minier