Bug#409178: gnome-applets-data: Please put the weather applet to a separate package

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 409178 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161945
thanks

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:07 +0200, Mikko Rasa wrote:
> I installed the gnome-applets package to get the system and battery
> monitor applets.  It took 40MB of disk space, and a closer examination
> revealed this:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 20877053 2007-01-03 20:56
>    /usr/share/gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml

Yes, it's a biggie, but at least in 2.16 it seems to be a little bit
smaller (about 15MB).  

For the future, I think the plan is to get rid of Locations.xml and put
this information online, at weather.gnome.org.

> Since I'm not using the weather applet, I'm rather annoyed at this waste
> of disk space.  Deleting the file manually is a sub-optimal solution,
> since it would just come back at each update of the package.

I think you can use dpkg-divert to get rid of it (moving it
to /dev/null).

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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