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Re: apt-cache show gnome-about



Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org> writes:

> <quote who="Christian Marillat">

> Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org> writes:
> 
> > You have got to be kidding... :-)
> 
> I hope you know that dependencies are added by a binary (dpkg-shlibdeps) ?
> 
> Yes these days GNOME become more and more big...

> It's not the dependencies I'm amazed about (more dependencies is *not* a bad
> thing) - it's the existence of the separate gnome-about package at all. :-)

Ha, because this is really anoying to package a binary in a library
package. If the library soname change we can't install both packages at
the same time.

Christian



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