On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 06:47, JG wrote: > Dear Debian and GNOME developers,
I am also a user, and not a Debian maintainer. But rest assured I am an avid fan of all the maintainers :) > Although these might be all useful packages, in my humble an personal > opinion some of them exceed the purpose of gnome-core dependencies. I find the gnome-core / gnome issue to be very confusing from a users perspective and of course have my own two cents to throw in. maybe there could be a better setup like so: Package Contents ------- -------- gnome-core any essential GNOME related libraries etc... gnome-desktop all the apps that are actually part of the GNOME desktop gnome-apps other apps that are not in the desktop release gnome all three above. I find it rather strange that when I install "gnome" I am required to install non-gnome desktop apps, considering there is no vanilla GNOME package (ie- why isn't "gnome" just plain gnome?) - again not having a just plain gnome package is just a problem in my opinion. also isn't it a bit arbitrary that there are plenty of other gnome related packages that don't make 'gnome'' or 'gnome-core' - one of my biggest problems with running debian on my desktops is finding packages that fit my needs (ie do I use foomatic-gui or gnome-cups-manager or just plain cupsys to set up printers?) that may be a dumb question to some, but I just discovered the "gnome-cups-manager" and "foomatic-gui" packages a few days ago :) and while we are at it, can someone tell me the difference between "abiword' and "abiword-gnome" ? -- Charles Voelger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
