Hi Frans Thangs for cc'ing the kde people. I'm not sure I have anything more to add, but I do agree that packages that isn't expected to be $DE-only should not by default isntall $DE specific packages.
/Sune On Friday 19 February 2010 22:35:35 Frans Pop wrote: > FYI > > Please follow up to the BR (#570579) if you have anything to add to it. > > Cheers, > FJP > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Package: xulrunner > Version: 1.9.1.8-2 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > X-Debbugs-CC: task...@packages.debian.org > > I was very surprised when I upgraded a KDE system to find that xulrunner > tried to pull in all sorts of GNOME packages. It was quite a bit of work > to unselect everything that got pulled in through those Recommends. > > I'm talking about the Recommends for: > - libdbus-glib-1-2 > - libgconf2-4 > - libgnome2-0 > - libgnomeui-0 > - libgnomevfs2-0 > And the deps for those packages are far from trivial. > > I guess the change was introduced in 1.9.1.6-2 with: > Merge xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support into xulrunner-1.9.1. > > But I question if the Recommends of those packages is policy compliant as > Recommends should only be used for packages "that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations" [1]. > And that's only true for systems running a GNOME desktop environment. For > systems running KDE the GNOME packages are not needed and even in a lot of > cases very much not desired. > > I also question the value of the Recommends: if a user is running GNOME > they will all be installed already anyway! > > As Debian Installer now installs Recommends by default and the desktop > tasks installs iceweasel for all desktops, this means that all those GNOME > packages would get installed on KDE desktop systems by default, > > As iceweasel is supposed to be desktop environment independent, I urge you > to reconsider this change. IMO the current Recommends make iceweasel > unsuitable for default installation. > I also feel that for packages like iceweasel integration support for > specific desktop environments should always be optional. > > Cheers, > FJP > > [1]http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binaryde > ps ------------------------------------------------------- > -- I'm not able to telnet from a connection from the file menu inside Word XP, how does it work? From the control options menu within Outlook NT you must rename a attachment on the BIOS display on the Ultra desktop for booting with a virus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
