Em Mon, 03 Nov 2003 19:15:37 +0100, Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Em Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:33:08 +0100, Carlos Perell� Mar�n <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > >> Now, I think it's better if we add this change to gnome-session package > >> and gnome-session should depends on desktop-base package. > > > > That would work. What does Christian say about this? Christian? > > I disagree. User don't want to use gnome-session and I'll receive bug > report for a desktop-base dependency. What 'users'? I believe the kind of users you are talking about is not the kind of user who has the most potential to using GNOME. I think this kind of decision is the kind that benefits that small amount of obsessive geeks who can't bear a dependency of 12kb if it's 'unecessary'. I believe, though, that we should think about the desktop role that GNOME plays and support our desktop end-users. So you can simply tag the bug wontfix and carry on. We don't need to satisfy every bug reporter... it's a design decision. I believe gnome-session and, say, kdebase are the way to go on this, it's gonna make things work the Right Way(tm). HP writes about UIs: "The traditional, de facto free software line between when a preference should exist and when it shouldn't is "a preference should exist if someone implements it or asks for it." No one is going to seriously defend this one though. At least, no one who's maintained an application and seen the sheer number of non-overlapping feature/preference requests you typically receive can take this one seriously." That's to say that making desktop-base a "preference" will make things quite more complicated for the Debian Desktop project, and will have no real benefits for the user. Let's make our design decisions and tag the bugs 'wontfix'. []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> "N�o deixe para amanh�, o WML que voc� pode traduzir hoje!" http://debian-br.alioth.debian.org/?id=WebWML
