On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:52:25 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Camaleón <[email protected]> wrote: >>Hello, >> >>Today I have run a dist-upgrade and tracker wanted to get installed. >> >>I didn't have it installed since I'm running wheezy. >> >>Why this hard dependency? Is tracker now a requirement for those who >>want a full GNOME desktop? :-? >> >>P.S. "gnome" requires "gnome-documents" and "gnome-documents" requires >>"tracker". > > Package: gnome > […] > Depends: gnome-core (= 1:3.0+7), desktop-base, alacarte (>= 0.13.2),
(...) > Given this enormous amount of dependencies, I really don’t think you can > complain about tracker. More than a complaint, I'd like to know why there exists such as requirement "now". It was not just a few weeks ago. > Additionally, gnome is just a meta package, so you can safely choose to > ignore it. I have installed "gnome" (the metapackage). I want to install "gnome" (the metapackage), but tracker was not a requirement to have the full GNOME desktop. Until now. There are another desktop search/indexers solutions out there and GNOME did not force us to stick to one of them. > I have to agree, though, that gnome-documents and, more importantly, > nautilus[1] depending upon tracker might be unfortunate, Yes, it is. That's why I added my comments at the open bug. > but then again: Use something else if you don’t like tracker. To ease > things further, I bet that there is a way not to start tracker once it > is installed. I know how to configure tracker. I use it in my main workstation, it's really useful, but it makes no sense to have it installed on the netbook and I tend to avoid installing applications that I don't use, they waste hard disk space, are prone to bugs, need to be updated... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
