Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 06:36:57PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> > Yes, I care about it. I usually run Debian for headless systems that
> > don't use X or a DE, but when I'm using a GUI on Debian, and need to use
> > a Gnome program, there's much more sense to it requiring and installing
> > the bare minimum of what it needs than installing a lot of bloat. Isn't
> > the "Debian way" more about allowing customization and forcing as little
> > as possible on the users or sys-admins?
>
>
> I would like to stick up for Debian here.
>
> Debian is a distribution that tends to split packages a lot (and I mean
> *a lot*) which I really think _is a good practice_ because it gives both,
> plain users (by means of metapackages) and admins (by cherry picking just
> the needed packages) the full control on their systems.
Hmmm, I've got postgreSQL running on this machine. I have never
installed mysql, and in fact don't want it, and yet:
root@fischer:~# apt-cache policy mysql-common
mysql-common:
Installed: 5.0.51a-24+lenny5
Candidate: 5.0.51a-24+lenny5
Version table:
5.1.49-3~bpo50+1 0
200 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
*** 5.0.51a-24+lenny5 0
500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.0.51a-24+lenny4 0
500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages
root@fischer:~# dpkg --purge mysql-common
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of mysql-common:
libmysqlclient15off depends on mysql-common (>= 5.0.51a-24+lenny5).
dpkg: error processing mysql-common (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-common
root@fischer:~# dpkg --purge libmysqlclient15off
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libmysqlclient15off:
libaprutil1 depends on libmysqlclient15off (>> 5.0.51a).
dpkg: error processing libmysqlclient15off (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
libmysqlclient15off
root@fischer:~# dpkg --purge libaprutil1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libaprutil1:
apache2.2-common depends on libaprutil1.
apache2-mpm-worker depends on libaprutil1.
libapache2-request-perl depends on libaprutil1; however:
Package libaprutil1 is to be removed.
apache2-utils depends on libaprutil1.
libapache2-mod-perl2 depends on libaprutil1; however:
Package libaprutil1 is to be removed.
libapreq2 depends on libaprutil1.
libapache2-mod-apreq2 depends on libaprutil1.
dpkg: error processing libaprutil1 (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
libaprutil1
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