Installing gnome-terminal on a non-GNOME system

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hello

I'm not a GNOME user, but I wanted to see how well gnome-terminal
works in sarge and did this:

# apt-get install gnome-terminal
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  capplets capplets-data desktop-base docbook-xml esound-common gconf2
  gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring
  gnome-mime-data gnome-session hicolor-icon-theme libaudiofile0 libbonobo2-0
  libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libeel2-2
  libeel2-data libesd0 libfam0c102 libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4
  libglade2-0 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0
  libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0
  libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-1
  libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.8-0 libidl0 libkrb53 libmetacity0
  libnautilus2-2 liborbit2 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libscrollkeeper0
  libsmbclient libstartup-notification0 libvte-common libvte4 libxklavier8
  libxslt1.1 scrollkeeper shared-mime-info symlinks
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After unpacking 72.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
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I had the idea that it was possible to install GNOME applications
without having to install the entire GNOME suite, but this is too much.

Is it really ok that I need to install gnome-session? Seems like a
dependency bug somewhere, but there are so many packages involved that
I would appreciate an analysis from somebody who is familiar with GNOME.

Thanks.