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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