Bug#608098: gnome-core: revert mass migration from -desktop-environment to -core

[Josselin Mouette]

retitle 608098 RFP: gnome-martin-eric-racine - metapackage for Martin-Éric Racine’s needs
reassign 608098 wnpp
kthxbye	

Le lundi 27 décembre 2010 à 08:07 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit :
> The massive migration of dependencies from gnome-desktop-environment
> to gnome-core is extremely undesirable, because it spoils the
> usefulness that gnome-core used to have in pulling just enough
> packages to have a basic GNOME environment. Now, instead, it pulls WAY
> too many packages and leaves the user without any simple method for
> installing basic GNOME components.

The gnome-core package is not here to fulfill the needs of a given
user. 

If you need a specific set of packages, please make your metapackages
yourself. See brdesktop-gnome for an example of such a recurrent
failure.

Cheers,
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