Bug#167372: This package should really be split

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 07 septembre 2008 à 18:20 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> I am another user who would *very* like to see gnome-games split into
> several binary packages (possibly built from a single source package)
> for the various individual games.  Of course, the same holds for
> gnome-games-data.
> 
> It would save users willing to play only one or two games the hassle to
> pull in a huge amount of dependencies and the consequent waste of mass
> memory.

All games have similar dependencies, except for python (which is already
widely used by other GNOME packages), guile (which is not that big) and
GGZ.

> Pretty please, think about it and see if this is feasible...

Of course it is technically feasible, but it would add even more clutter
to the packages file by adding no less than 30 packages, for a
questionable gain.

> Also, I don't quite understand why attempting to install gnome-games
> (even without recommends) seems to pull in avahi, cups, foomatic,
> nautilus-burn, samba, ...
> Samba?  I just want to play gnometris, there's no running Windows system
> that I can see, why should I need Samba ?!?

None of these are in the dependencies of gnome-games, only the client
libraries are. You might want to analyze the chain of Recommends to find
what pulls them, I can assure you that it is not gnome-games directly
and that splitting it would have no effect on that issue:
for example, cups is brought by libgnomeprint which is brought by
python-gnome2-desktop. However I’m pretty sure that nautilus-cd-burner,
samba and avahi are not brought by Recommends.

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