Re: Re: Gratituous dependences among packages

2009-04-05 Thread Filipus Klutiero
What purpose is served by the existence of kde (the metapackage)? kde is the package which administrators who want to try KDE should generally install. Is there a reason why not to clarify its meaning by renaming it as 'kde-full' kde doesn't depend on the full KDE (for example, it doesn't de

Re: Gratituous dependences among packages

2009-04-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 22:11 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > My wish is that modularization of Debian packages be improved. It means > > that it'll be possible to uninstall all games in a PC and continue to > > have functioning KDE. Likewi

Re: Gratituous dependences among packages

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > kde is a metapackage that includes _all_ KDE that is not related to > development. If you just want a functional KDE without games and related > stuff look at kde-core. Then you can install what you want else using the > modules > metapackag

Re: Gratituous dependences among packages

2009-03-20 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > At the encouragement of Luk Claes, I would like to raise this subject in > the general mailing list. > > It has been my impression that when using aptitude and requesting to > install/upgrade desktops (KDE, maybe also Gnome), several othe

Re: Gratituous dependences among packages

2009-03-20 Thread sean finney
hi, On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > My wish is that modularization of Debian packages be improved. It means > that it'll be possible to uninstall all games in a PC and continue to > have functioning KDE. Likewise - TeX. in cases where it can function without the extr

Gratituous dependences among packages

2009-03-20 Thread Omer Zak
At the encouragement of Luk Claes, I would like to raise this subject in the general mailing list. It has been my impression that when using aptitude and requesting to install/upgrade desktops (KDE, maybe also Gnome), several other packages, which don't interest me, are installed as well. They ca