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Re: Gnome 2.12 & Python



Em Sáb, 2005-10-29 às 14:25 -0600, Dave Loftis escreveu:
> (Incidentally, the entire question is moot, since gnome-menu 2.12 is
> not the same thing (as far as I can tell) as the package was in 2.10,
> and it is not part of core gnome functionality...

Quoting a great message from Jordi Mallach to the Debian BTS[0], when
asked to drop the dependency on nautilus:

> Why don't you suggest that I drop gedit too, as we have vim and emacs;
> or gnome-terminal (xterm or rxvt are less resource intensive), or
> metacity | sawfish, as windowmaker also works with GNOME? gnome-applets
> isn't strictly needed either, none of the applets included in ther are
> _required_ to run GNOME. Bug Buddy? You can use mozilla or lynx
> directly to file bugs. Eog? Ditch the crap, we've had Gqview for ages!
> Yelp isn't required either, most of us don't ever look at the GNOME help
> documents anyway... and better not talk about the utility of
> gnome-icon-theme.
> In short, should I remove all the dependencies but "gnome-session",
> "gnome-panel", "gnome-control-center" (although, if you try hard, it's
> not _required_ either) and "scrollkeeper" (again, damn docs!)? Should I
> rename "gnome-core" to a more descriptive "gnome-useless"?

[0]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=230075;msg=10

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Guilherme de S. Pastore (fatalerror)
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