Bug#167372: This package should really be split

[Francesco Poli]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:36:48 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le dimanche 07 septembre 2008 à 18:20 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit :
[...]
> > 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.

I am under the impression that dependencies and recommendations between
GNOME-related packages are a bit too tight...


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