On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:22:38PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > We receive some requests not to include foo and bar in the desktop > > packages, here are some options we have: > > - alternate deps, "|" (especially for browsers: people don't want > > epiphany, but want firefox, galeon, or other) > > This would actually be my favorite solution, now that I think about it. > If the dependency on gnome-games was changed to "gnome-games | > no-gnome-games", I could easily provide a dummy no-gnome-games package. > > At the moment I have a dummy gnome-games package, but this is a bit > risky: if something else depends on gnome-games and wants to use a file > from it (perhaps an image of a playing card?), things are going to > break. The alternate dependency in gnome-desktop-environment would be a > cleaner solution. > > Would the alternate dep be acceptable to the GNOME package maintainers?
Personally, I think this can open a can of worms with everyone requesting alternatives because they hate evince, eog, the gimp, nautilus and metacity. I can see rationale behind not wanting to install games though, and could live with accepting the alternative in this case, if lool is happy as well. Loïc? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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