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
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Lubuntu-desktop has unnecessary requirements
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439289
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