Remove gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic from the default installation

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Fri May 20 17:41:00 UTC 2016


On 20/05/16 18:53, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ATM there are some applications depending explicitly against gnome-icon-theme or
> gnome-icon-theme-symbolic packages.
> 
> I think that these could be dropped from the default installation (I'm pretty
> sure that the cd team will be happy with that).
> 
> So the question is, are we simply dropping the icon theme dependency or are we
> replacing it with a dependency against adwaita-icon-theme (or maybe even
> adwaita-icon-theme | $some_provide)? The gnome-core metapackage already pulls
> adwaita-icon-theme.
> 
> I personally would drop all references to an icon theme (including
> adwaita-icon-theme) and let the metapackage pulls it
> 
> Any thoughts about this?

Removing them altogether sounds good to me.

Cheers,
Emilio




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