Bug#607266: gnome-core should not depend on evolution

[R. Lemos]

Thank you both, Julian and Josselin.

Josselin, I really didn't know that gnome-core is a metapackage. I
thought it had binaries/data/links/conf/whatsoever in it (with, maybe,
the gnome core applications). Just after your answer, I ran "dpkg -L
gnome-core" just to discover you are right. Shame on me.

Julian, I made almost as you advised (just after the afore mentioned discovery).



On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org> wrote:
> On Do, 2010-12-16 at 13:59 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 10:33 -0200, R. Lemos a écrit :
>> > Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution.
>> > Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which I
>> > gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many useless
>> > dependencies).
>> >
>> > I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it should be
>> > downgraded to just a "recommendation", or gnome-core should be split in more
>> > fine-grained packages.
>>
>> The metapackages do not exist to fulfill each and every nitpicking
>> user’s need. They are here to cover specific use cases corresponding to
>> installation profiles.
>>
>> If the package selection doesn’t suit you, you are free to install your
>> own selection of packages by hand.
>
> Or create your own meta packages, like I do. In any case, due to
> technical limitations with CD building, those dependencies had to be
> added, as gnome-desktop-environment was too large too fit on CD1.
>
> In any case, too get rid of gnome-core on your system, you just need to
> mark the packages it depends on as manually installed and then remove
> it; the following commands should do this:
>
>    aptitude unmarkauto ~R^gnome-core$
>    aptitude remove gnome-core
>
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>
> --
> Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
>
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