Bug#597827: Acknowledgement (gnome depends on software-center, WTF?)
Fabian Greffrath
fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Oct 4 08:39:47 UTC 2010
> is it really necessary to have gnome *depend* on software center? Honestly, I
> find it awefull and not very Debian-like (whatever that means, it's just a
> feeling to me).
I tried and installed it again today and my inpressions about it still
have not changed:
- It is an ubuntu'ism and contains marketing blabber ("Featured
Applications", sigh) on start up.
- It feels alien to both Debian and Gnome (especially its private
breadcrumb navigation).
- It requires just another apt-frontend, aptdaemon.
- It requires the bloated app-install-data package.
- It does not add much value to the default graphical apt frontend,
synaptic (it just sorts packages differently).
- It does only provide feature-parity with synaptic if update-manager
and software-properties-gtk are also installed...
and even then, we already have synaptic, so what's it purpose?
Sorry, this is only my personal impression of this software and I just
can't make friends with it.
- Fabian
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