Bug#532355: Let it not be said...

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Fri Jun 12 16:08:23 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:48:41PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 juin 2009 à 17:02 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit :
> > Ah, ok.  So I assume things changed radically since you wrote this:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:04:18AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > Le lundi 02 juin 2008 à 14:10 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> > > > >       * tomboy: very nice app, but controversial since it brings the
> > > > >         full Mono stack, so we don't make it part of
> > > > >         gnome-desktop-environment.
> > > > 
> > > > I doubt that the size of its dep chain (~50 mb) makes it worthwhile to
> > > > add it to our task.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, that's what I feared. I hope someone rewrites it in Vala some day...
> > 
> > (from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484121#20)
> > 
> > But I didn't hear in what way.  Is there something I missed?
> 
> No, nothing has changed. The difference is that the d-i people have the
> possibility to force gnote instead of tomboy for installation media
> where 50 MB make a big difference.

It's strange, I don't see any of this mentioned in that conversation...

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Robert Millan

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