Bug#413948: Having gedit-common installed without gedit confuses the system

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Mar 9 15:15:45 CET 2007


Le jeudi 08 mars 2007 à 17:36 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > When is this a problem? AFAIK the only package depending on gedit-common
> > is gedit?
> 
>  While uncommon, it's incorrect on the part of gedit.  There are two
>  approaches to the problem: make gedit-common pull gedit (since it's
>  useless without gedit) or move the .desktop file to gedit.

According to the freedesktop specification, adding a TryExec clause
should be enough to fix the bug.

(That is, only if gnome-vfs conforms to it closely enough...)

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