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

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

Em Ter, 2004-11-23 =C3=A0s 04:23 -0200, Rog=C3=A9rio Brito escreveu:
> Anyway, my idea of not installing the games would be to make some small=20
> office installs a bit leaner, while still using Gnome.

I do understand your argument, but...

> I would think that putting gnome-games as a recommends of=20
> gnome-desktop-enviornment wouldn't be such a bad compromise, then.

gnome-desktop-environment, as has already been explained to you, was
choosen as the meta-package that should install a GNOME desktop as
released officially by the GNOME Project.

This includes gnome-games and is, thus, a bad compromise given our
goals.

> Or would it? The machines where I would install Linux have very little=20
> HD space and are a bit old. Saving resources would be nice, while still=20
> having Gnome installed.

You can, then, install gnome-core + the packages you want from the
gnome-desktop-environment meta-package, as I do, or use the equivs dirty
hack (why do you think it is a dirty hack, btw, would you mind
continuing this discussion on pvt? ;)).

While I understand and agree with your needs, its no use breaking our
policy on the gnome-desktop-envinronment because of this single case.

Thanks,

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