Bug#653012: libgnomeui-0 dependencies are bloated

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.jussieu.fr
Thu Dec 22 19:19:38 UTC 2011


Package: libgnomeui-0
Version: 2.24.5-2

Hi,

On my netbook, I'm running a minimal window manager.  In order to run
a Gnome program, I need to install libgnomeui-0.

  $ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends libgnomeui-0
  [...]
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs libart-2.0-2 libbonobo2-0
    libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgdu0 libgnome2-0
    libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-common
  [...]
  After this operation, 25.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Are you positive that for example gvfs-daemons is necessary just so
I can run a Gtk+ program that happens to link against libgnome.so.0?

-- Juliusz







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