On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:36:58PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
brian m. carlson wrote:
There is no functional or useful distinction between optional and extra,
as far as I can see - what are you trying to retain?
If the distinction that is outlined in policy is followed, it is useful.
It guar
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:48:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:12:57PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> >> Whilst most GPE components can be used separately, the full environment
> >> needs to replace the existing desktop whether that be Gnome or KDE or
> >> chaos may en
Steve Langasek wrote:
Bah, got the reply address wrong too - should have left this until the
morning . . .
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:12:57PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
>> Whilst most GPE components can be used separately, the full environment
>> needs to replace the existing desktop whether t
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:12:57PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> Whilst most GPE components can be used separately, the full environment
> needs to replace the existing desktop whether that be Gnome or KDE or
> chaos may ensue due to the different needs of the target environments
> and the underlyi
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would have put gpe-conf into extra but it needs to depend on packages
> that are in optional because those can be used within Gnome or KDE or
> any other desktop.
I'm missing why this is a problem. Priority: extra packages can depend on
Priority: opt
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Not true. GPE offers a desktop - just not a full Gnome desktop. There
>> are plenty of alternative desktops in optional already. The full GPE
>> environment is quite specialised but Debian does claim to the The
>> Universal OS. E
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is no functional or useful distinction between optional and extra,
> as far as I can see - what are you trying to retain?
One distinction we have at the moment that I personally think is useful is
that things that most users don't care about unles
brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:55:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
>> I'd like 'extra' to disappear - so if there is a move to do that, I'm
>> all for it.
>
> I disagree with this. I think that this distinction is useful, and I
> have in the past filed bugs because of it. G
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:55:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
I'd like 'extra' to disappear - so if there is a move to do that, I'm
all for it.
I disagree with this. I think that this distinction is useful, and I
have in the past filed bugs because of it. Granted, IANADD, but I do
the occa
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:01:43 +1000, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> Haven't we more or less already moved away from priorities as meaning
>> anything particularly important? We have:
>
>> optional -- all the good software in the world
>> extra -- obscure stu
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