Bug#382871: gnome-desktop-environmenate: please only recommend gnome-games

[Paul Menzel]

Hi,


Am Montag, den 14.08.2006, 00:36 +0200 schrieb Loïc Minier:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > I would like to have a gameless GNOME desktop. The
> > gnome-desktop-environment package is otherwise quite good for my needs,
> > but the dependency on gnome-games irritates me. The games should be
> > optional, in my opinion.

I have the same problem with `gnome-bluetooth`. I cannot remove bluez.
(But luckily I can disable the daemon in `/etc/default/bluetooth`.

>  (I've already heard this request, but can't find it in the BTS.)
> 
>  We receive some requests not to include foo and bar in the desktop
>  packages, here are some options we have:
>  - alternate deps, "|" (especially for browsers: people don't want
>    epiphany, but want firefox, galeon, or other)
>  - downgrading to Recommends, but that defeats the purpose of the
>    package in a lot of cases (especially: broken package managers, and
>    tasksel which doesn't follow Recommends)

This issue is almost three years old. Are the package managers and
tasksel fixed so that this option, downgrading to recommends, is now a
feasible solution?

>  - more meta-packages (gnome-desktop-environment-except-for-games)
> 
>  And on the user / admin side, here's what looks possible:
>  - own meta packages (trivial since the packages are pure deps)
>  - dummy packages for unwanted stuff (e.g. an empty gnome-games package)
> 
>  My personal wish goes to follow the exact module set that upstream
>  elects.  The upstream process is enough to decide, we should only
>  customize the module set when we need to introduce or replace modules
>  for Debian ones.

That sounds like a valid argument. Although I cannot judge about that,
because I am not familiar with the GNOME policy on that issues.


Thanks,

Paul
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