On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, jtd wrote: > Unless some sense is knocked into some brain dead developers in debian and > ubuntu, i for one will stop using both. > One of the developers of a note taking app -tomtom or somesuch - ( we know how > important note taking is to the survival of the whole universe), is dragging > in the whole patent infested Mono library into debian and Ubuntu. 40+ MB of > patent crap for a note taking app???. Something has gone real rotten in > debian. > > Of course one can go about getting rid of it, but if a distro is going to be > as brain dead, one might as well ditch it at the first opportunity.
Well, none of this happens if you first install the barebones system and then install just the packages you desire. Tomboy has been made a dependency of the "gnome" metapackage, so all you need to do is to do a base install and avoid saying "apt-get install gnome". Nobody is forcing you to choose the Gnome desktop option during install, so your point is moot. Kumar -- Kumar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
