Bug#355064: gnome shouldn't depend on rhythmbox

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:27:44AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> This is even worse: people will wonder why they didn't get rhythmbox
> when they installed GNOME.  

You really seem to have some sort of tunnel vision. IMO, most people 
won't wonder why they didn't get rhythmbox because they won't care.  
Those that do can simply install it.

>After fighting against features, you're now fighting against whole packages.

Well, you don't like the idea of changing the package. Fine. But now you 
both won't change the package *and* insist that it *must* be installed 
by default for anyone who wants a gnome desktop?

> You don't want to stop GNOME to want features as simple as
> file-sharing.

I expect that someone should have to turn that on. You're suggesting 
gnome take a step *backward* from a security perspective while the 
industry is moving in the other direction. 

> It's quite natural for people to get a webserver when they install a
> webapp such as phppgadmin, yet apache2 does not only listen on lo by
> default, 

And phppgadmin doesn't get installed by default when you say you want a 
desktop system, does it? (A better policy for handling *all* daemons is 
actually a good thing long term, but holding the line for desktops is a 
least a step in the right direction.)

-- 
Michael Stone