On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:09 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > As long as it is only started when you plug such a device, I don’t see > where the problem is. I must admit, that it's mainly a conceptional problem. Users with very little space available (or even on embedded systems) won't probably install gvfs[-backends] at all.
But it seems to be a trend that more or less basic packages _depend_ on more and more stuff which many users don't have at all. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the enormous amount of good work you do with GNOME packaging :) ... but IMHO especially gnome-packages are an example for this. IIRC, just with installing g-d-e you already get bluetooth stuff, obex and webdav (indirectly via gnome-user-share). Personally I think there should be more freedom, e.g. just recommending or suggesting such stuff. Of course it's possible to simply not install g-d-e but having a metapackage is quite handy. > We have lots of vendor-specific backends in existing packages (ses e.g. > the kernel) k... but the kernel is really a special case ;) > and lots of vendor-specific packages which are installed by > default: xserver-xorg-video-radeon, hpijs-ppds… They're installed by default (at least if you install recommends by default) but you're not forced to do so... as it's not depends. Cheers, Chris.
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