Bug#326202: Dropping gnucash from gnome-office

[Jordi Mallach]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:25:47PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
>  gnome-office Recommends gnucash and this has the effect of pulling the
>  whole GNOME 1.4 suite for people installing gnome-office.  (44.7 MB and
>  43 packages.)
> 
>  I think this is too heavy a requirement for most users.  There are
>  other programs to do the job, and gnucash can't claim to be better
>  integrated into GNOME.
> 
>  Hence, I propose the removal of the Recommends from gnome-office.  A
>  Suggests might replace it.

Given that we moved gnucash to recommends to avoid people getting it
installed without noticing the huge amount of extra GNOME1 deps it
pulls, I agree with the suggestion.

Sometime ago, package managers installing recommends by default wasn't
that common.

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