Martin Soto wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:55 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > ... >> While I don't know how this _could_ be done, I agree that there are good >> reasons why it _should_. My particular pet peeve are the screensaver >> packages, where there are some screensavers that I want removed because >> they don't actually hide the screen. Unlike your game example, this >> isn't even something that can be handled by editing the menus, you have >> to physically remove the program. > > On the other hand, this sounds like something that could actually be a > security issue for some people, and that may have to be addressed by the > package maintainer by, for example, splitting the package.
Oh, dear. I thought I'd submitted this as a bug quite some time ago, but I can't see any sign of it, so I guess I'll just do it again (... or for the first time). > Still, this > doesn't mean that Ubuntu requires a general mechanism for cherry-picking > files from an installed package. Ubuntu's (and Debian's) package system > is already quite complex, and, being the core piece of infrastructure it > is, you don't want to mess with it unless it is really necessary. No, I don't think it does, but it does demonstrate that there are instances where you might want to remove programs but can't just remove a menu entry. Of course, you can't stop the employees from playing FreeCell by removing the menu entries, either :-) -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
