Bug#612685: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-bluetooth ???
Andrew T. Young
aty at mintaka.sdsu.edu
Wed Feb 9 22:43:01 UTC 2011
Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Severity: normal
After the recent upgrade, I found the machine infested with "bluez" and
various bluetooth libraries. I believe this is a side-effect of the
decision to drag in everything under "Recommends:". In my case, I
had a few pieces of an old gnome desktop setup; and I suspect that one
of those pieces initiated a cascade of dependencies that caused the
bluetooth stuff to be installed automatically.
I have cleaned out most of the offending packages. But it seems absurd
to me that gnome-desktop-environment *depends* on gnome-bluetooth.
You ought to at least check to see whether the necessary hardware is
present before installing such stuff.
This 10-year-old Pentium III box certainly does not have bluetooth
hardware in it. I should add that (believing that computers should be
seen and not heard) I have no sound enabled, and no speakers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
pn ekiga <none> (no description available)
pn esound <none> (no description available)
pn evince <none> (no description available)
pn evolution <none> (no description available)
ii evolution-data-server 2.30.3-2 evolution database backend server
pn fast-user-switch-applet <none> (no description available)
pn file-roller <none> (no description available)
pn gcalctool <none> (no description available)
pn gconf-editor <none> (no description available)
pn gdm <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-about 2.30.2-2 The GNOME about box
pn gnome-backgrounds <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-core <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-games <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-keyring-manager <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-media 2.30.0-1 GNOME media utilities
ii gnome-netstatus-applet 2.28.1-1 Network status applet for GNOME
pn gnome-nettool <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-system-monitor 2.28.1-1 Process viewer and system resource
pn gnome-system-tools <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-themes <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-user-guide 2.30.1-1 GNOME user's guide
pn gnome-utils <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-volume-manager <none> (no description available)
pn gstreamer0.10-esd <none> (no description available)
ii gtk2-engines 1:2.20.1-1 theme engines for GTK+ 2.x
pn gucharmap <none> (no description available)
ii iceweasel [gnome-www-browser] 3.5.16-4 Web browser based on Firefox
pn industrial-cursor-theme <none> (no description available)
ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-2 Perl interface to the GNOME librar
pn libgnomevfs2-bin <none> (no description available)
ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.24.3-1 GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
pn nautilus-cd-burner <none> (no description available)
pn sound-juicer <none> (no description available)
pn totem <none> (no description available)
pn vino <none> (no description available)
ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment recommends:
pn dasher <none> (no description available)
pn fam <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-accessibility-themes <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-mag <none> (no description available)
pn gnopernicus <none> (no description available)
pn gok <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment suggests:
pn evolution-exchange <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-audio <none> (no description available)
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