Bug#607266: gnome-core should not depend on evolution
Package: gnome-core Version: 1:2.30+7 Severity: normal Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution. Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which I gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many useless dependencies). I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it should be downgraded to just a recommendation, or gnome-core should be split in more fine-grained packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#607266: gnome-core should not depend on evolution
Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 10:33 -0200, R. Lemos a écrit : Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution. Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which I gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many useless dependencies). I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it should be downgraded to just a recommendation, or gnome-core should be split in more fine-grained packages. The metapackages do not exist to fulfill each and every nitpicking user’s need. They are here to cover specific use cases corresponding to installation profiles. If the package selection doesn’t suit you, you are free to install your own selection of packages by hand. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `--- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#607266: gnome-core should not depend on evolution
On Do, 2010-12-16 at 13:59 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 10:33 -0200, R. Lemos a écrit : Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution. Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which I gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many useless dependencies). I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it should be downgraded to just a recommendation, or gnome-core should be split in more fine-grained packages. The metapackages do not exist to fulfill each and every nitpicking user’s need. They are here to cover specific use cases corresponding to installation profiles. If the package selection doesn’t suit you, you are free to install your own selection of packages by hand. Or create your own meta packages, like I do. In any case, due to technical limitations with CD building, those dependencies had to be added, as gnome-desktop-environment was too large too fit on CD1. In any case, too get rid of gnome-core on your system, you just need to mark the packages it depends on as manually installed and then remove it; the following commands should do this: aptitude unmarkauto ~R^gnome-core$ aptitude remove gnome-core -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#607266: gnome-core should not depend on evolution
Thank you both, Julian and Josselin. Josselin, I really didn't know that gnome-core is a metapackage. I thought it had binaries/data/links/conf/whatsoever in it (with, maybe, the gnome core applications). Just after your answer, I ran dpkg -L gnome-core just to discover you are right. Shame on me. Julian, I made almost as you advised (just after the afore mentioned discovery). On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: On Do, 2010-12-16 at 13:59 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 10:33 -0200, R. Lemos a écrit : Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution. Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which I gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many useless dependencies). I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it should be downgraded to just a recommendation, or gnome-core should be split in more fine-grained packages. The metapackages do not exist to fulfill each and every nitpicking user’s need. They are here to cover specific use cases corresponding to installation profiles. If the package selection doesn’t suit you, you are free to install your own selection of packages by hand. Or create your own meta packages, like I do. In any case, due to technical limitations with CD building, those dependencies had to be added, as gnome-desktop-environment was too large too fit on CD1. In any case, too get rid of gnome-core on your system, you just need to mark the packages it depends on as manually installed and then remove it; the following commands should do this: aptitude unmarkauto ~R^gnome-core$ aptitude remove gnome-core -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
