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Re: Bug#414408: add arj and p7zip to gnome-desktop-environment



Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007, Robert Millan wrote:
>> So, the path has been cleared:
>>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html
>> Could you please add arj and p7zip to Recommends now?
>
>  For the record, file-roller (which IMO is the only GNOME package
>  relevant in this discussion) has a recommend on p7zip already and I
>  bumped the arj suggest to a recommends.
>
>  Please note that another user complained about the arj recommends we
>  had in the past: #425104; I personally think it's ok to pull free
>  software if it makes file-roller work out of the box, and people can
>  uninstall the recommend if they so wish.

I personally don't think that tasksel will be able to get rid of
--without-recommends in very near future. In meanwhile I agree that
would be better to put it on the task to get it installed.

After we use the apt default, we can remove those packages and clean
up the tasks.

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