On Mi, 25 iul 12, 18:53:36, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I would prefer having more smaller bundles that could be installed > piecemeal. However the upstream gnome developers don't feel the same > way. They would like to see a 100% gnome system top to bottom and > think doing anything else is wrong according to their philosophy. We > will have to agree to disagree. For me if there were a set of > meta-packages such as "desktop-extras" or some such that would be my > preference over having a huge "gnome" meta-package. There is gnome-core (which still depends on a lot of stuff) and also gnome-session. > That puts you into exactly the same situation as the original poster. > The 'abiword' package could be removed. That would force removal of > 'gnome', which is okay since it is just a meta-package and you don't > need it. But then dpkg will announce that the long list of things > marked as automatically installed by gnome are now candidates for > removal exactly as we are discussing here. Nitpick: dpkg doesn't care about this, it's the higher level package managers (apt/itude). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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