On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:48:28AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > 1: In fact, I think that meta-packages should only have > recommendations and suggestions, since they are automatically > installed by a default Debian configuration.
All meta-packages are not installed in a default Debian installation. In fact, what you are referring to are task-* meta-packages, as generated by tasksel, such as task-gnome-desktop¹, which depends on gnome-core², and *does* recommend the "gnome" meta-package already. (of course at installation time the user has little opportunity to have set a no-recommends-please preference prior to selecting tasks. Perhaps they do if they are in expert mode: I'm not sure.) "gnome-core" is defined to be the bare minimum of GNOME to have a functional system and its dependencies are set accordingly. (I see iceweasel is a depends here but the xul-* packages are not.) "gnome" is defined to be the GNOME Desktop Environment: all of it: and its dependencies are set accordingly. Thus the upstream GNOME team define what is part of the GNOME Desktop Environment³. Anyone who does not want the entire GNOME desktop should not install (or should subsequently remove) the "gnome" metapackage. ¹ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/task-gnome-desktop ² http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-core ³ exceptions do exist, such as the lack of epiphany and substitution with iceweasel, which is the root cause of the problems you've highlighted here, and I explain in my other post. -- Jonathan Dowland -- 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/20131017084918.gb4...@bryant.redmars.org