On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:50, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the tips. The ouput you suggest is very misleading. I > would not have surmised from the description it was totally > non-essential. > > Both the first and last lines really do seem to indicate otherwise. > Its first described as the `essential components' and finally we are > told `It contains the official `core' modules of the gnome desktop'.
Every word of that is true, but that does not mean that it is not an optional meta-package. > Section: metapackages > Priority: optional and it is spelled out in the description: > This meta-package depends on a basic set of programs The packages it depends on are the core, essential bits of Gnome. This is a pretty standard way of describing things like this throughout Debian. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=8UbKGdBSVZ2TWpV1rtgO-kxEMCWunnC2Loo=kjjdt...@mail.gmail.com
