On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 08:59 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > severity 606936 wishlist > tag 606936 wontfix > thanks > On lun., 2010-12-13 at 18:00 +1100, William Hales wrote: > > The XFCE4 environment ( as installed from the Debian Squeeze installer CD ) > > does not include a calculator package by default ( with exception to > > OpenOffice.Org Calc ). > > > > Solution: Make 'xfce4' depend/recommend a package such as 'galculator' > > I'm not quite sure what's the point. The Xfce environment installed for > Squeeze only ships a default, basic desktop environment, including the > usually useful applications on top of Xfce. This means an office suite, > a browser and a media player, but then we expect our users to select > themselves the tools fitting their needs. > > Xfce point is not to provide everything and the kitchen's sink (GNOME > and KDE are more about providing a *full* DE), but rather to be modular. > There are some tools which are expected by an user to be installed, but > I don't think a calc is really part of that. > > Regards,
Wow, I expected Debian bug mailing lists to take days to have responses. Thanks Yves-Alexis I see where you are coming from. Keeping meta-packages simple also AFAIK stops everything being marked for removal when one component package is removed by the user. Regards, William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org