Bug#714803: Chains of causality
Benjamin Eltzner
b.eltzner at gmx.de
Thu Jul 11 10:04:18 UTC 2013
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Am 11.07.2013 12:01, schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> On 11/07/13 11:52, Benjamin Eltzner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I worked out the following chains of causality:
>>
>> task-xfce-desktop suggests network-manager-gnome suggests
>> gnome-bluetooth suggests gnome-control-center suggests
>> gnome-session
>>
>> and
>>
>> lxde suggests network-manager-gnome ...
>
> Really? Suggests are not installed by default.
>
>> Now, I think there is no dispute that the result "I wanted to
>> install a _light_ desktop and it came with the core of gnome." is
>> unacceptable.
>>
>> It might however be unfair to blame solely the maintainers of
>> gnome-bluetooth who happened to be the unlucky guys to close
>> these unfortunate chains. I personally couldn't care less, where
>> these chains are interrupted, but I contend they _must_ be
>> interrupted.
>>
>> I will therefore assign this bug to all packages involved in
>> these chains in the hope that somebody finds their package
>> provides the least necessary of the links.
>
> Don't do that. Reassign this to the xfce or lxde packages and let
> them analyze the situation. They can reassign if/as needed.
>
> Emilio
>
Oh, sorry, you are right: Substitute all "suggests" by "recommends" in
the above.
Also I took your advice and only reassigned to lxde and task-xfce-desktop.
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