On Nov 29, 2003, at 9:16 am, Oliver Lange wrote:
Why does gnome depend on gnome games ? Is there really anybody in the world really playing any of these absolute mega crap games ? That's a big package which i just don't want to see on my box...
Have you considered reading the ebuild..?
DESCRIPTION="Meta package for the GNOME desktop."
# Note to developers:
# This is a wrapper for the complete Gnome2 desktop,
# This means all components that a user expects in Gnome2 are present
# please do not reduce this list further unless
# dependencies pull in what you remove.
# With "emerge gnome" a user expects the full "standard" distribution of Gnome and should be provided with that, consider only installing the parts needed for smaller installations.
As I understand it, Gentoo's policy is not to pass judgment upon what the upstream developers consider "standard" parts of their distribution. This is a Good Thing (tm) IMHO. For every person who whinges (bitterly, like a little girl) that the Gnome games are included, there would be someone else who would complain were they neglected.
Should you require other parts of Gnome without Gnome-games, I suggest you emerge those parts separately - I think that `emerge gnome-desktop` will pull in much of what you require.
Stroller.
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