[Petter Reinholdtsen] > The DVD is overfull, and options increase congintive strain for > those that need to select which tool to use and confuse those that > want to to use Debian Edu. Not making a choice is doing our users a > disservice.
I started on a list of "duplicate" packages at the end of <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze>. It currently contain this content, provided here to make sure you understand what I talk about: Duplicate targets It is a goal to only provide the best application for a given task, and avoid several applications for the same tasks. Here is a list of duplicates currently being installed. video player Both kaffeine, mplayer, gnome-mplayer and dragonplayer is installed and show up in the KDE menu Multimedia. mplayer is a dependency of gnome-mplayer, which in turn is a dependency of gecko-mediaplayer used by iceweasel for inline video playing and in our task list. dragonplayer is a dependency of kde-standard, which is recommended by kdebase, which is in our task list. kaffine is recommended by education-desktop-other in our task list. video editor both kino and kdenlive is installed and show up in the KDE menu Multimedia. Both are recommended by education-desktop-other in our task list. package manager Both adept and synaptic is installed and show up in the KDE menu under System. adept | synaptic is recommended by education-desktop-other and pulled in that way, while synaptic is recommended by system-config-printer, which is recommended by printer-applet, which is in our task list. LDAP viewer and editor Both luma and jxplorer is installed. Both are in our task lists. Scanner control There are two scanner applications in the KDE Graphics menu. One is called acquireimages from the kipi-plugins package recommended by the education-desktop-kde package in our task lists. The other is skanlite recommended by education-desktop-other in our task list. PDF and Postscript viewer Both gv and okular is installed and showing up in the KDE graphics menu. okular is a dependency of kde-standard in our task lists. gv is a dependency of maxima which is a dependency of wxmaxima which is in our task lists. We do not need several video players, PDF viewers or package managers, or any of the other duplicate packages here. We need to choose, and stand by such choice. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
