Bug#753701: Please lower the relations with gnome-control-center to Suggests.

Andrej N. Gritsenko andrej at rep.kiev.ua
Fri Jul 4 12:13:05 UTC 2014


Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 3.0.0-3
Severity: important
Control: affects -1 lxde

The package gnome-system-tools has important functionality which can be
used outside of GNOME. Unfortunately in current state it brings down very
big chunk of GNOME-specific libraries due to fact it has such package as
gnome-control-center with relation Recommends. Since installing a package
does install of Recommends too (it can be disabled of course but that is
not very adviced and it's enabled by default), it will bring few hundreds
of other packages as well. This is OK for GNOME, just matter of fact they
will be used anyway, but it isn't acceptable for other environments such
as LXDE - gnome-control-center and all the related programs will be never
used. The solution is very simple - just lower the gnome-control-center
relation to Suggests instead. Do it, please, so we can use it in the lxde
metapackage. Thanks in advance.




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