<quote who="Ross Burton"> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:03, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Why gnome-core and not gnome? The rationale is that the average Debian > > GNOME user intuitively does "apt-get install gnome". > > But gnome depends on gnome-core, and I've installed gnome-core (as I want > GNOME) but not gnome (as I don't want everything it depends on) > > gnome-core is core stuff, and fam is pretty much a hard-dependency for a > working GNOME desktop.
See, I think the name 'gnome-core' makes this discussion more difficult than it needs to be. gnome-core provides a working GNOME Desktop, and due to that, I believe it should depend on fam (nautilus, panel, etc -> there are reasons for and against those packages depending on fam, but let's fight the little battles first). The 'gnome' package provides an entire suite of desktop applications, running on top of the GNOME Desktop (gnome-core), which is mostly useful for installing a complete environment. I don't use it, I just use the GNOME Desktop and install other stuff as I need them. So, my opinion is that gnome-core should depend on fam, and someone should outline why gnome-panel and nautilus shouldn't, just so we know we have good reasons to not have the dependencies there. (In fact, this would be a good note to put in an appendix to the policy documents.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ You know a French woman is faking it when she screams, "I would like the table near the window please!"
