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Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?



T o n g wrote:
> That seems to me an absurd reason. 

Here is the actual reason, from http://bugs.debian.org/608098#31

| in squeeze, the gnome-session package now
| depends on the basic components that are actually needed for running a
| GNOME session. Since this change was made, I hadn’t known what to do of
| gnome-core, as it had became obsolete. The size issue of fitting GNOME
| on the first CD gave an obvious answer to what this metapackage should
| become.

Have you tried using gnome-session for whatever purposes you were
previously installing gnome-core? If it doesn't work, open a bug
report saying specifically why it doesn't work.

-- 
see shy jo, who finds some of the attitudes and assumptions in this
            thread distressing

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