Bug#319060: Downgrade dependency on gnomemeeting

[Loic Minier]

tags 319060 + wontfix
thanks

        Hi,

On mar, jui 19, 2005, Geoffrey M. Romer wrote:
> This package currently depends on gnomemeeting, which seems like rather a
> niche tool, relatively unrelated to the business of providing a desktop
> environment. It it actually true that without gnomemeeting,
> the Gnome desktop environment would lack a significant amount of
> functionality? If not, the dependency should probably be downgraded to
> Recommends or even Suggests.

 This module is an official desktop module, and is part of GNOME
 desktop:
    <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.10/2.10.2/sources/>
    <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/2.12.1/sources/>

 If you want to have something that is called "gnome-desktop" but which
 doesn't hold all official desktop modules, you can use equivs.

> The current dependency is a problem both because it forces needless cruft
> on the user's system (both gnomemeeting and its many dependancies),
> and because it means that when gnomemeeting becomes uninstallable, (e.g.
> now, see bug 318742), gnome-desktop-environment also becomes
> uninstallable.

 GNOME is about usability, and not about high customability, I believe
 you want to build a stripped GNOME desktop by removing the official
 modules you don't like: sure you can do that on your system, but it's
 not something we want to do globally.

 Concerning uninstallability, it is a serious bug and has to be
 addressed prompty, and it won't happen in testing nor in stable, so
 this is a non-issue.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
"What do we want? BRAINS!    When do we want it? BRAINS!"