Re: New dependences in gnome-core, might be better in gnome?

[Charles Voelger <cvoelger@dweasel.com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 06:47, JG wrote:
> Dear Debian and GNOME developers,

I am also a user, and not a Debian maintainer. But rest assured I am an
avid fan of all the maintainers :)

> Although these might be all useful packages, in my humble an personal
> opinion some of them exceed the purpose of gnome-core dependencies. 

I find the gnome-core / gnome issue to be very confusing from a users
perspective and of course have my own two cents to throw in.

maybe there could be a better setup like so:

Package         Contents
-------         --------
gnome-core      any essential GNOME related libraries etc... 
gnome-desktop   all the apps that are actually part of the GNOME desktop
gnome-apps      other apps that are not in the desktop release
gnome           all three above.

I find it rather strange that when I install "gnome" I am required to
install non-gnome desktop apps, considering there is no vanilla GNOME
package (ie- why isn't "gnome" just plain gnome?) - again not having a
just plain gnome package is just a problem in my opinion.

also isn't it a bit arbitrary that there are plenty of other gnome
related packages that don't make 'gnome'' or 'gnome-core' - one of my
biggest problems with running debian on my desktops is finding packages
that fit my needs (ie do I use foomatic-gui or gnome-cups-manager or
just plain cupsys to set up printers?) that may be a dumb question to
some, but I just discovered the "gnome-cups-manager" and "foomatic-gui"
packages a few days ago :)

and while we are at it, can someone tell me the difference between
"abiword' and "abiword-gnome" ?

-- 
Charles Voelger <cvoelger@dweasel.com>