Bug#375169: gnome-desktop-environment superfluously reccommends fam

[john.dalton at bigfoot.com]

Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: 1:2.14.2
Severity: minor

When I upgrade a held back version of gnome-desktop-environment using an
"apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment" it superfluously recommends
fam.

Recommending fam is not necessary, as a replacment package "gamin" is
already installed as part of the the default debian system.  Gamin claims
to be a replacement for fam.

Perhaps the right solution is to create a virtual "file alteration
monitor" package, which gnome-desktop-environment recommends?  Both fam
and gamin can then provide this virtual "file alteration monitor" package,
thus preventing gnome-desktop-environment from recommending a file
alteration monitor when one is already installed.

This extraneous recommendation by gnome-desktop-environment is quite
confusing to the end user (Why do I need one of those?).  Also there is a
fair chance the user will follow the recommendation and install a second
file alteration monitor.  Do fam and gamin running at the same time have
any negative effects on a system?