David Weinehall wrote: > Bjørn Mork wrote: > > The issue that worries me most about these desktop notification plans is > > the possibility that some package may decide to unnecessarily drop > > support for non-desktop systems, adding dependencies on the desktop > > notification system. I believe we already have had a few examples of > > such unnecessary dependencies on services which are "nice to have", like > > GNOME depending on NetworkManager for example. > > I'm having a hard time understanding this particular gripe. If you're > running a non-desktop system (by this I take it to mean that you're not > using a GUI), why would you worry about GNOME's dependencies anyhow? Here is an example: The emacs24-nox package, a typical headless server package for many of us, depends upon dbus. Feature creep. Bob
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