Package: gnome-system-tools Severity: important Gnome system tools, as its name implies, is designed for Gnome. However, it's essetially quite desktop-independent and doesn't have gnome dependencies once packaged properly. Currently, apt-get install gnome-system-tools gives the whole gnome desktop along with a lot of python-related packages. Ironically, gnome-system-tools is perl-based, and it didn't use python at all. So this is an important bug. After reading the source code, I have some suggestions regarding to packaging.
1. Split gnome-system-tools into two separate packages. I mean, put the nautilus share config tool in another package. It's the only tool that requires nautilus and gnome-vfs. Other parts of gnome-system-tools are all desktop independent and don't depend on gnome at all. There are configure options to let you choose which tools to build. So this is possible. In this way, people not using naultilus can install gnome-system-tools without any gnome dependency. This is a must-have for desktops other than gnome. 2. No program in gnome-system-tools used python. All of them are written in C, and their backend is totally written in perl. So please check the dependency again. Intalling many python packages with this is unnucessary. I think this bug is very critical for the users who don't use gnome or nautilus. Thank you very much. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]