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Thank you, Sven! I contacted the folks who originally encountered the
211087 issues, and they raised no objections.<br>
<br>
Years ago there were huge transition issues, and tacking on the control
center dependency to a popular terminal emulation package was an
expedient way to get a bunch of 1.x libraries upgraded. Nowadays, with
even sarge using gnome-terminal 2.8, those issues are ancient history.<br>
<br>
Herbert Xu raised some doubts in October 2003 about whether the fix
adopted (depending on control center) captured exactly the
requirements, but certainly there were some sticky issues around the
very large amount of software experiencing a sea-change in assumptions.<br>
<br>
Santiago Vila did some minor grumbling in September of 2004:<br>
<tt>> I had the idea that it was possible to install Gnome
applications<br>
> without having to install the entire Gnome suite, but this is too
much.</tt><br>
<br>
Otherwise folks are mostly resigned to swallowing a big pile of KDE or
Gnome software and they get on with it. Certainly that was my
perspective for years. But now I would like to improve Debian, by
allowing new installs to pick up just what they need. Installing
lots of unused software is a Bad Thing; in addition to resource issues,
there
is an ongoing burden to upgrade such software as releases come out.<br>
<br>
The control center is not truly <i>necessary</i>
for the typical user to sensibly use the terminal emulator. Now, some
folks will want "the Gnome System" installed, and they will be
unaffected by the change, since they will be pulling in one or more of
these packages which quite reasonably have a dependency on the control
center:<br>
gnome-core, gnome-session, gnome-desktop-environment,
gnome-desktop-data, gnome-panel, gnome-bin, gnome-office, etc.<br>
<br>
My <a
href="http://www.sector6.net/devel/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/jh-gnome-terminal_2.22.0-1_i386.deb">gnome-terminal</a>,
from `dpkg-buildpackage -D -b -sd -ptrue`, runs with
all features very happily, although "apt-get install gnome-terminal"
would still offer to pull in a bunch of libs plus many apps unrelated
to terminal emulation:<br>
<br>
The following extra packages will be installed:<br>
<br>
alacarte app-install-data avahi-daemon avahi-utils capplets-data
cdrdao<br>
cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-common deborphan deskbar-applet
desktop-base<br>
desktop-file-utils dialog dvd+rw-tools evolution-data-server<br>
evolution-data-server-common foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine<br>
foomatic-filters genisoimage gnome-about gnome-applets
gnome-applets-data<br>
gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data gnome-media gnome-media-common<br>
gnome-menus gnome-mount gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel
gnome-panel-data<br>
gnome-session gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal-data
gnome-user-guide<br>
gnome-utils gs-esp gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base<br>
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x metacity metacity-common<br>
nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data python-beagle python-dbus<br>
python-fpconst python-glade2 python-gmenu python-gnome2<br>
python-gnome2-desktop python-pyorbit python-soappy samba-common
smbclient<br>
ssl-cert synaptic system-tools-backends wodim xkb-data<br>
<br>
<br>
I recommend dropping the "Depends: gnome-control-center", urgency==low.<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
JH<br>
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