Bug#454063: Dependencies of the 'gnome' package should be recommends, at least until a decent mime preferences editor exists

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 19:34 +0000, Enrico Zini a écrit :
> In testing installed with the 'desktop' and 'gnome' tasks, gnome depends
> on gnome-office, that depends on abiword, that opens .odt files instead
> of openoffice.org, and this is currently annoying people around me (and
> me as a consequence)>
> 
> I cannot remove abiword without removing gnome, and if I do that, lots
> of packages will be marked for removal because they've been
> autoinstalled pulled in by gnome.
> 
> There is not, TTBOMK, a decent mime type preference editor that I can
> let people use to configure the system to use a different word processor
> by default.

Huh? Nautilus includes a perfectly fine mime preference editor. If you
want to configure them for the whole system, there is
also /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list.

Furthermore, OOo is already set as the default for .odt files:
        application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text=ooo-writer.desktop

There are some reasons to drop Depends to Recommends, but wrong MIME
defaults are a very bad reason.

Cheers,
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