"Alejandro Bonilla" <abonilla@linuxwireless.org> writes: >> gnome-desktop-environment 1:2.10.2.1, in testing, depends on >> sound-juicer (>= 2.10.1). >> >> But sound-juicer in testing is only version 0.6.1-2. >> >> How did gnome-desktop-environment get into testing, with an >> unsatisfiable dependency? > a cd ripper shouldn't be a dependencie, the applets should be, the > browser could be... but CD-Ripping? What if this is a server that > doesn't even need to Rip CD's? (a) You shouldn't install Gnome on a server (b) You don't need to install a meta-package if you don't want to install some of the components it provides > Wasn't the main idea of debian and apt, that you only install what you > want and what is necessary? Yeah, and meta-packages are there to make it easy to install a large heap of packages that belong together. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 48: Nutzt die neuen Möglichkeiten von Windows'95! Haben Sie unser anderes Update schon gekauft? (Kristian Köhntopp)
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