Bug#355064: gnome shouldn't depend on rhythmbox

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Michael Stone wrote:
>> You really seem to have some sort of tunnel vision.
>
> Don't be insulting.  

I didn't think that was insulting. It was an observation.

> You didn't make any effort to encompass my vision,

You didn't seem to make any effort to consider that someone might not 
be interested in rhythmbox.

> I think you're confusing gnome and gnome-desktop-environment.

I don't think so.

> People wanting the GNOME desktop, and only that should install
> gnome-desktop-environment.  gnome is a much wider set, pulling stuff
> like evolution, or gnome-office.

Neither of which is a network service...

> Again, you seem to miss the point of gnome versus
> gnome-desktop-environment.

Please explain it. Are you suggesting that *everything* in debian that 
uses gnome should be installed when someone select "gnome"? Because 
that's not the case. The gnome package is an arbitrary set of packages, 
and there is no reason that a particular music player has to be in it.

> take the problem the next step (since evidently you wanted to bypass me
> by bringing that at the GNOME team scope)

Why is that bypassing you? You can manage your package any way you want 
to. I think it's wrong, but that's fine. I don't see why you believe 
that means that your package *has to be* installed by default for anyone 
who wants gnome.

-- 
Michael Stone