Re: Bug#326202: Dropping gnucash from gnome-office
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:25:47PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> gnome-office Recommends gnucash and this has the effect of pulling the
> whole GNOME 1.4 suite for people installing gnome-office. (44.7 MB and
> 43 packages.)
>
> I think this is too heavy a requirement for most users. There are
> other programs to do the job, and gnucash can't claim to be better
> integrated into GNOME.
>
> Hence, I propose the removal of the Recommends from gnome-office. A
> Suggests might replace it.
Given that we moved gnucash to recommends to avoid people getting it
installed without noticing the huge amount of extra GNOME1 deps it
pulls, I agree with the suggestion.
Sometime ago, package managers installing recommends by default wasn't
that common.
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