Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Em Mon, 03 Nov 2003 19:15:37 +0100, Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu:
[...] >> > 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'. Not really 12Kb but 500Kb and the package will be more big if you add more pictures. [...] > 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'. First setting a gconf key will be only useful for new user. If you change a gconf key in the postinst this will change nothing in users configurations and users will lost nothing. The good approach is to use update-alternative as the current desktop-base do. Christian
