Public bug reported: lubuntu-desktop has built itself as supposedly a light-weight alternative to other *buntu-desktop packages. From what I read, the intent is for support with minimal resources, including (but not exclusively) supporting older systems.
Lubuntu-desktop depends on bluetooth and gnome-bluetooth. This is a requirement that none of the other -desktop packages have. Others *recommend* bluez-cups and bluez-utils. But they do not depend on them. Bluetooth wireless should be no more than a recommends on lubuntu also. Pulse-audio is not fully integrated into all of Linux, and has enough issues of its own. It would be best if the lightweight buntu allowed for pulse to be stripped out. Again, recommend, not depend. Same could be said for gstreamer. ALSA does very fine on its own. Make sure an ALSA system is fully in place, and let the user decide whether to put anything on top of it. We're going for lightweight here. The heavyweight browser (firefox) is demanded by lubuntu-desktop. Better here to do something like what the lxde package did. Suggest one browser (could be Firefox), but only depend on www-browser. (Actually, lxde only recommended www-browser, but I could see moving this up to depend for a -desktop package.) lubuntu-desktop depends on language-pack-en. That's just culturally wrong. Why insist that everyone speak English? None of the other *buntu-desktops demand one particular language -- although each depends on a language-selector. lubuntu-desktop depends on xorg, as it should. It also depends on xorg- xserver-input-all and the evtouch package, which it should not. The xorg package and its dependencies already depend properly on input and outputs. lubuntu-desktop depends on abiword and gnumeric. These may be the best as far as lightness, but not the best as far as interoperability with other systems (MS Office). I would suggest recommending an office package, but whether the user wants goffice, koffice, or oo.o should be left to them. ** Affects: lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Lubuntu-desktop has unnecessary requirements https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439289 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs