On Thursday 18 June 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > 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.
Really? Gnome is the default desktop with Debian and Ubuntu. And one would be recommending Ubuntu to many first timers. > Tomboy has been made a > dependency of the "gnome" metapackage, Why? Especially when it is encumbered? and there exists gnotes. > 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. How about putting that crap else where and saying apt-get install some-rubbish. That way you put self in the soup, rather than trying to extract self. The whole logic of making gnome dependent on mono is thoroughly perverse. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
