Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.28+3
System: Debian Squeeze testing, GNOME 2.28.2, kernel 2.6.30-2-686 (i686)
Current Behaviour: Using Aptitude or Synaptic to try to remove Gnome-games,
Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, or Rhythmbox, results in an
inability to remove these packages without removing gnome and/or gnome-desktop.
Expected Behaviour: Using Aptitude or Synaptic to try remove any of the
applications listed above, (and any other applications on which the basic
functionality of Gnome does not depend), should result in the removal of the
application(s) specified without removing gnome, or gnome-desktop, or any other
critical components.
With the exception of Remmina, (which was not installed), I have removed all of
the above apps from Gnome 2.26 running on Ubuntu Intrepid without any problems,
so it's clear that these dependencies under Gnome 2.28 on Debian are spurious.
I am sure there are many other users who will never use some or all of the
above apps, (and probably others as well), and we should be able to remove
these apps and reduce system clutter without breaking Gnome.
Because it's a toss-up whether this is a Gnome problem or a Debian
packaging problem, I have filed it with both Gnome and Debian. (I filed the
report with Gnome before having read the Debian direction to not file
upstream).
Regards
Paul Taylor
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