Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-17 06:48, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
> > On 3/17/2010 4:42 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > > On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums<mark@allums.com>  wrote:
> > > > Why does GNOME require Gnash?  And what can I do to put a stop to it?
> > > Look at the following metapackages, their descriptions and dependencies:
> > >
> > >      gnome
> > >      gnome-desktop-environment
> > >      gnome-core
> > >
> > > Choose the one which best suits your purposes and install it.
> >
> > Oddly, for some reason, they all require Gnash.  I'm rooting for Gnash, 
> > I hope Gnash works out in the end, and with HTML5 video tag, maybe it 
> > will, but on my system, in Sqeeze, all three packages are installed, 
> > they all require each other, and they all require Gnash, which at the 
> > moment, is not my first choice.  At all.
>
> I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not
> the case on Lenny:
>
> $ apt-cache depends gnome-core
> gnome-core
>   Depends: gnome-control-center
>   Depends: eog
>   Depends: gedit
>   Depends: gnome-applets
>   Depends: gnome-icon-theme
>   Depends: gnome-menus
>   Depends: gnome-panel
>   Depends: gnome-session
>   Depends: gnome-settings-daemon
>   Depends: gnome-terminal
>  |Depends: metacity
>   Depends: compiz-gnome
>   Depends: nautilus
>  |Depends: rarian-compat
>   Depends: scrollkeeper
>     rarian-compat
>   Depends: yelp
>   Suggests: gnome-desktop-environment
>
> Which release are you running?

$ apt-cache --recurse depends gnome | \
               grep -B30 '  Depends: mozilla-plugin-gnash'
gnome
  Depends: gnome-desktop-environment
 |Depends: gdm-themes
[snip]
  Depends: gnote
  Depends: mozilla-plugin-gnash


Package gnome depends on mozilla-plugin-gnash which depends on gnash.

Mark could always just remove gnome.  It's just a metapackage.

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