Bug#363579: No, gnome-icon-theme isn't needed

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006, James Blanford wrote:
> My suggested remedy would be to make gnome-icon-theme a "Recommends".
> Anyone installing with the installer, aptitude or apt-get install will
> have it pulled-in automatically.  Stubborn minimalists like myself will
> know how to avoid it.

 We get bug reports the two way around, from people who install a
 package without its Recommends, and from people wanting to be able not
 to install them.  Technically, a Recommends might be correct, but some
 package managers (apt-get and synaptic spring to mind) do not push the
 user in installing Recommends by default.

 This also resulted in the archive being full of exagerated Recommends.

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
"You can gtk_main_run, but you can't gtk_widget_hide." --danw, 19-jul-04