Bug#430024: Gnome should not depend on totem-mozilla
Loïc Minier
lool at dooz.org
Wed Jul 11 07:19:22 UTC 2007
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007, Nima wrote:
> How are recommends not enforced properly? They are installed if the
> user chooses to install recommends, and not installed if the user
> doesn't want them.
No, apt-get and synaptic don't enforce Recommends properly, only
aptitude does.
> I don't think totem-mozilla is high-quality enough to be included with
> gnome. It's unstable, unpolished, and slow, and I would strongly
> prefer to just watch videos with an external player. Having gnome
> depend on it also prevents people from choosing mozilla-mplayer, but I
> don't think it needs to depend on either of them.
The call of the GNOME meta-packages is not to pull non-GNOME software;
as I said, you'll be free to chose when Recommends are usable for us
(packagers).
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Loïc Minier
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