[Bug 172584] Re: ubuntu-minimal has weird dependencies

2008-03-07 Thread Ralph Janke
Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to

[Bug 172584] Re: ubuntu-minimal has weird dependencies

2008-01-03 Thread uqbar
As far as vim is concerned, I cannot have just vim (the fat one): I must have both. Not a real problem though. But the syslog thing is really annoying and I'd not say it as a wishlist, especially because almost everyone that's interested in syslogs is willing to use syslog-ng and possibly

[Bug 172584] Re: ubuntu-minimal has weird dependencies

2008-01-03 Thread Ralph Janke
I don't seem to understand the problem. Simply by installing the package vim you have both, vim and vim.tiny. ls -l /usr/bin/vim* shows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-09-13 23:05 /usr/bin/vim - /etc/alternatives/vim -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1412084 2007-10-05 01:55 /usr/bin/vim.basic

[Bug 172584] Re: ubuntu-minimal has weird dependencies

2008-01-03 Thread uqbar
I'd like to be able to choose which editor, logger, archiver and whatever else to use without the need to keep more programs than needed and without the possibility to make my system unusable. Which seems to be impossible with the current packaging meta-information. It's not the VIM itself. Many

[Bug 172584] Re: ubuntu-minimal has weird dependencies

2007-12-30 Thread Ralph Janke
Thanks for submitting this report. vim and vim-tiny are not mutual exclusive. Therefore, there should be no problem to just install vim in addition. Therefore, I would like to close this report if this is ok. Thanks ** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Wishlist

[Bug 172584] Re: ubuntu-minimal has weird dependencies

2007-12-29 Thread Markus Majer
This is also with ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-standard. -minimal and -standard are things that almost any user want to have on their computers even if you use for example another logger. (exception: alsa* nobody needs in a server install..) But some packages in -desktop are really redundant for