Bug#282165: gnome-desktop-environment: please consider putting gnome-games as a Recommends or Suggests, not as a Depends

[Rogério Brito]

Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Sáb, 2004-11-20 às 19:09 +0100, Sebastien Bacher escreveu:
>>I don't think it's a good idea. Some people probable don't want
>>evolution, some others not nautilus or gcalctool, or gedit , ... 
>>We have a meta package with the official desktop and one with a complet=
e
>>desktop that's enough. If you don't agree with the content of the meta
>>package you should just not use them.

Sorry for the late reply, but I had some nasty personal problems.

Anyway, my idea of not installing the games would be to make some small 
office installs a bit leaner, while still using Gnome.

I would think that putting gnome-games as a recommends of 
gnome-desktop-enviornment wouldn't be such a bad compromise, then.

Or would it? The machines where I would install Linux have very little 
HD space and are a bit old. Saving resources would be nice, while still 
having Gnome installed.

> Or use equivs to fullfill the dependency manually.

IMVH and (admittedly) uninformed opinion, equivs is a dirty hack.


Thanks for your work with Gnome, Rogério Brito.

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