Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:08:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
>> > I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so
>> > that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not
>> > use them.
Me too.
>> Basically because gnome-desktop-environment is too big to fit on CD 1.
>> See bug #608098 for more information, especially
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608098#31.
That seems to me an absurd reason.
So only 3 of us in the entire Debian world think this way? Re-quoting OP
of bug 608098:
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| The massive migration of dependencies from
| gnome-desktop-environment to gnome-core is extremely undesirable,
| because it spoils the usefulness that gnome-core used to have in
| pulling just enough packages to have a basic GNOME
| environment. Now, instead, it pulls WAY too many packages and
| leaves the user without any simple method for installing basic
| GNOME components.
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I still think it make perfect sense, and a legitimated request.
> Creating a new package to depend upon evolution and ephiphany and
> gnome-core would be a less harmful solution.
Yeah, but look at what the maintainer said:
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| The gnome-core package is not here to fulfill the needs of a given
| user.
|
| If you need a specific set of packages, please make your metapackages
| yourself.
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well... what I can do, huh?
Nobody care about this?
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