On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:16 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:08:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > >>>> I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so >>>> that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not >>>> use them. > > Me too. > >>> Basically because gnome-desktop-environment is too big to fit on CD 1. >>> See bug #608098 for more information, especially >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608098#31. > > That seems to me an absurd reason. > > So only 3 of us in the entire Debian world think this way? Re-quoting OP > of bug 608098: > > ,----- > | The massive migration of dependencies from > | gnome-desktop-environment to gnome-core is extremely undesirable, > | because it spoils the usefulness that gnome-core used to have in > | pulling just enough packages to have a basic GNOME > | environment. Now, instead, it pulls WAY too many packages and > | leaves the user without any simple method for installing basic > | GNOME components. > `----- > > I still think it make perfect sense, and a legitimated request. > >> Creating a new package to depend upon evolution and ephiphany and >> gnome-core would be a less harmful solution. > > Yeah, but look at what the maintainer said: > > ,----- > | The gnome-core package is not here to fulfill the needs of a given > | user. > | > | If you need a specific set of packages, please make your metapackages > | yourself. > `----- > > well... what I can do, huh? > Nobody care about this?
This is an example of why I've been moving away from FOSS. Someone makes a good point in a bug report and the programmer/developer/maintainer throws it back in his face, which allows the bug to be closed out quickly. I think it's a legitimate concern and just because one person pointed it out does not mean it only effects one person. Yes, I care about it. I usually run Debian for headless systems that don't use X or a DE, but when I'm using a GUI on Debian, and need to use a Gnome program, there's much more sense to it requiring and installing the bare minimum of what it needs than installing a lot of bloat. Isn't the "Debian way" more about allowing customization and forcing as little as possible on the users or sys-admins? Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d0d337f4-b065-4f51-94e3-2d0c2e16e...@halblog.com
