Bug#577075: (re)move support for libmobiledevice into a different package

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:09 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> As long as it is only started when you plug such a device, I don’t see
> where the problem is.
I must admit, that it's mainly a conceptional problem.
Users with very little space available (or even on embedded systems)
won't probably install gvfs[-backends] at all.

But it seems to be a trend that more or less basic packages _depend_ on
more and more stuff which many users don't have at all.


Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the enormous amount of good work
you do with GNOME packaging :) ... but IMHO especially gnome-packages
are an example for this.

IIRC, just with installing g-d-e you already get bluetooth stuff, obex
and webdav (indirectly via gnome-user-share).

Personally I think there should be more freedom, e.g. just recommending
or suggesting such stuff.

Of course it's possible to simply not install g-d-e but having a
metapackage is quite handy.


> We have lots of vendor-specific backends in existing packages (ses e.g.
> the kernel)
k... but the kernel is really a special case ;)


> and lots of vendor-specific packages which are installed by
> default: xserver-xorg-video-radeon, hpijs-ppds…
They're installed by default (at least if you install recommends by
default) but you're not forced to do so... as it's not depends.


Cheers,
Chris.
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