Bug#430024: Gnome should not depend on totem-mozilla

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007, Nima wrote:
> How are recommends not enforced properly?  They are installed if the
> user chooses to install recommends, and not installed if the user
> doesn't want them.

 No, apt-get and synaptic don't enforce Recommends properly, only
 aptitude does.

> I don't think totem-mozilla is high-quality enough to be included with
> gnome.  It's unstable, unpolished, and slow, and I would strongly
> prefer to just watch videos with an external player.  Having gnome
> depend on it also prevents people from choosing mozilla-mplayer, but I
> don't think it needs to depend on either of them.

 The call of the GNOME meta-packages is not to pull non-GNOME software;
 as I said, you'll be free to chose when Recommends are usable for us
 (packagers).

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Loïc Minier