Hi,
Am Montag, den 14.08.2006, 00:36 +0200 schrieb Loïc Minier: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I would like to have a gameless GNOME desktop. The > > gnome-desktop-environment package is otherwise quite good for my needs, > > but the dependency on gnome-games irritates me. The games should be > > optional, in my opinion. I have the same problem with `gnome-bluetooth`. I cannot remove bluez. (But luckily I can disable the daemon in `/etc/default/bluetooth`. > (I've already heard this request, but can't find it in the BTS.) > > We receive some requests not to include foo and bar in the desktop > packages, here are some options we have: > - alternate deps, "|" (especially for browsers: people don't want > epiphany, but want firefox, galeon, or other) > - downgrading to Recommends, but that defeats the purpose of the > package in a lot of cases (especially: broken package managers, and > tasksel which doesn't follow Recommends) This issue is almost three years old. Are the package managers and tasksel fixed so that this option, downgrading to recommends, is now a feasible solution? > - more meta-packages (gnome-desktop-environment-except-for-games) > > And on the user / admin side, here's what looks possible: > - own meta packages (trivial since the packages are pure deps) > - dummy packages for unwanted stuff (e.g. an empty gnome-games package) > > My personal wish goes to follow the exact module set that upstream > elects. The upstream process is enough to decide, we should only > customize the module set when we need to introduce or replace modules > for Debian ones. That sounds like a valid argument. Although I cannot judge about that, because I am not familiar with the GNOME policy on that issues. Thanks, Paul
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