Package: cinnamon-desktop-environment Version: 5.6.0 Severity: whishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: t.j.pink...@alumnus.utwente.nl
Dear Maintainer, to have several desktop environments available on my computer, I installed the cinnamon desktop environment. This package has a hard dependency on the noto-font package. Latter package contains fonts for all unicode languages, and it is thus not a bad idea to have that installed per-see. But since there are for every language about 10 to 20 fonts installed, the fontlist on my computer "exploded". This is a hussle as font selection should not be cumbersome, but usefull. Scrolling along a list of hundreds of noto fonts to come to the next usefull font is clearly not. When I tried to deinstall the noto-font, the dependency on this package tried to deinstall also part of the cinnamon desktop. I could work around it though, by manually selecting all packages that were to be deinstalled. However must this be? For me the question is, is the dependency on the noto-font really necessary? Or is it a nice to have? Could the noto-font be a recommended package? That would allow easier deinstallation when wanted. Another solution could be to separate the noto-font out into a much finer selection of font packages, such that only those for installed languages are installed. I do understand that native speakers of, say, thai, may want the thai part of the noto-font, but we "westerners" do typically not need that part of this huge font base. I hope some thoughts on this will help to make Debian better. Best regards, Tjeerd Pinkert -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages cinnamon-desktop-environment depends on: ii atril [pdf-viewer] 1.26.0-2+b1 ii cinnamon-core 5.6.0 ii eog 43.2-1 ii evince [pdf-viewer] 43.1-2+b1 ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-11 pn fonts-noto <none> ii gnome-calculator 1:43.0.1-2 ii gnome-screenshot 41.0-2 ii gnome-text-editor 43.2-1 ii gv [pdf-viewer] 1:3.7.4-2+b1 ii xdg-user-dirs-gtk 0.11-1 Versions of packages cinnamon-desktop-environment recommends: ii blueman 2.3.5-2+b1 ii brasero 3.12.3-2 ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1 ii cheese 43.0-1 ii chromium [www-browser] 120.0.6099.129-1~deb12u1 ii cups 2.4.2-3+deb12u5 ii deja-dup 44.0-2 ii evolution [mail-reader] 3.46.4-2 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 115.6.0esr-1~deb12u1 ii gdebi 0.9.5.7+nmu6 ii gnome-characters 43.1-1+deb12u1 ii gnome-disk-utility 43.0-1 ii gnome-font-viewer 43.0-1 ii gnome-games 1:43+1 ii gnome-logs 43.0-1 ii gnome-software 43.5-1~deb12u1 ii gnome-sound-recorder 43~beta-1 ii gnome-system-monitor 42.0-2 ii gnote 43.1-1 ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.22.0-2 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly 1.22.0-2+deb12u1 ii hexchat 2.16.1-1+b3 ii libreoffice-calc 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 ii libreoffice-gnome 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 ii libreoffice-impress 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 ii libreoffice-writer 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.12-1 ii mate-themes 3.22.23-1 ii mpv 0.35.1-4 ii orca 43.1-1 ii pidgin 2.14.12-1 ii remmina 1.4.29+dfsg-1 ii rhythmbox 3.4.6-2+b1 ii rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder 3.4.6-2+b1 ii rhythmbox-plugins 3.4.6-2+b1 ii seahorse 43.0-1 ii shotwell 0.30.17-1+b1 ii simple-scan 42.5-2 ii smplayer 22.7.0~ds0-1 ii sound-juicer 3.38.0-2.1 ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-2 ii synaptic 0.91.3 ii system-config-printer 1.5.18-1 ii thunderbird [mail-reader] 1:115.6.0-1~deb12u1 ii totem 43.0-2 ii transmission-gtk 3.00-2.1+deb12u1 pn vino | x2goserver <none> ii vlc 3.0.20-0+deb12u1 ii yelp 42.2-1 ii zenity 3.44.0-1 Versions of packages cinnamon-desktop-environment suggests: pn gedit-plugins <none> ii gimp 2.10.34-1+deb12u2 ii inkscape 1.2.2-2+b1 ii low-memory-monitor 2.1-1
