Package: gnome Version: 1:2.14.3.6 Severity: wishlist Hello,
In testing installed with the 'desktop' and 'gnome' tasks, gnome depends on gnome-office, that depends on abiword, that opens .odt files instead of openoffice.org, and this is currently annoying people around me (and me as a consequence)> I cannot remove abiword without removing gnome, and if I do that, lots of packages will be marked for removal because they've been autoinstalled pulled in by gnome. There is not, TTBOMK, a decent mime type preference editor that I can let people use to configure the system to use a different word processor by default. My alternatives now are either to remove gnome and remark other packages as manually installed, or use equivs to provide a fake abiword. Therefore, at this point, there seems to be no way to have openoffice.org as the default word processor without expert user intervention. In my experience, this is a *very* common use case. A simple way out could be to have the gnome metapackages just Recommends: the other packages, at least until a decent mime preference editor comes out. Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
