[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096283
Title:
Installing Nautilus in Xubuntu 12.10 pulls in Redundant Packages as
Dependencies
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
Nautilus (nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1) – when installed
under under Xubuntu 12.10 using Synaptic – directly or indirectly
pulls in Brasero, Zeitgeist and other application packages as
dependencies.
― These additional packages such as Brasero and Zeitgeist are not
requested nor required, only the file browser/manager Nautilus itself
is.
― Further, these extra packages provide no essential or indispensable
functionality to Nautilus itself. Nautilus is complete in itself as a
file browser/manager. (The installation is on a series of some 100
netbooks which by their very design never have CD/DVD drives.)
― Zeitgeist, moreover, is a Stasi-like service — covertly and
comprehensively snooping on, logging and chanelling information on
user activities and events. As such, the presence of Zeitgeist is
highly undesirable on professional Linux systems designed to be
transparent in their behaviour, well-controlled and secure against
information leakage.
Superfluous dependencies not only result in wasted space and resources
allocated to such undesired and undesirable packages.
But this bug also concerns a core design principle: Linux packages
should only be included as dependencies when they provide essential or
indispensable functionality to the package that is actually and
deliberately selected for installation.
These redundant dependencies should therefore be removed from the
Nautilus package.
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