Bug#382871: gnome-desktop-environmenate: please only recommend gnome-games

[Lars Wirzenius]

ma, 2006-08-14 kello 00:36 +0200, Loïc Minier kirjoitti:
>  (I've already heard this request, but can't find it in the BTS.)

Neither could I, though I thought I had seen it before.

>  We receive some requests not to include foo and bar in the desktop
>  packages, here are some options we have:
>  - alternate deps, "|" (especially for browsers: people don't want
>    epiphany, but want firefox, galeon, or other)

This would actually be my favorite solution, now that I think about it.
If the dependency on gnome-games was changed to "gnome-games |
no-gnome-games", I could easily provide a dummy no-gnome-games package.

At the moment I have a dummy gnome-games package, but this is a bit
risky: if something else depends on gnome-games and wants to use a file
from it (perhaps an image of a playing card?), things are going to
break. The alternate dependency in gnome-desktop-environment would be a
cleaner solution.

Would the alternate dep be acceptable to the GNOME package maintainers?

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