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

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:22:38PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >  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?

Personally, I think this can open a can of worms with everyone
requesting alternatives because they hate evince, eog, the gimp,
nautilus and metacity.

I can see rationale behind not wanting to install games though, and could
live with accepting the alternative in this case, if lool is happy as well.

Loïc?

Jordi
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