On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:13:06AM -0400, Charles Voelger wrote: > > 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. The current rule is: gnome-core: all modules included in the upstream GNOME Desktop release. gnome: random extra stuff, in general. Both Christian and I dislike the new gnomemeeting dependency in particular, because it depends on lots of libraries and I'm sure the amount of Debian GNOME users that actually use Gnomemeeting or even own a webcam is a small percentage. > 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. What I had proposed to Christian was creating "gnome-office" (#178536) and "gnome-fifth-toe" packages. Given the amount of concern the new deps is causing on users, I think we need to make some decision to move parts of gnome-core to gnome. I'll see if Christian and I can come with a way of deciding what could go into gnome-core and what shouldn't. > 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 :) Well, yeah. There's a lot of room for improvement here. > and while we are at it, can someone tell me the difference between > "abiword' and "abiword-gnome" ? abiword is a gtk 2.0 only app. Abiword-gnome has GNOME support (including menu items, bonobo integration, etc). Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi@sindominio.net jordi@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature