On 3/17/2010 6:48 AM, 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?
Current Squeeze. eog gedit gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-icon-theme gnome-menus gnome-panel gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon gnome-terminal gvfs metacity mutter nautilus yelp suggests gnome-desktop-environmentThere are several things. One is gnome-desktop-environment. Suggestions and recommendations get added automatically, if I don't watch out. Can't figure out why.
GDE depends on gnome-core. Gnome depends on GDE. None of the three currently installed depends on gnash according to apt-cache, but updating any of the three or gnome-accessibility tries to install gnash. Go figure.