Bug#610913: gnome: Gnome depends on Tomboy, which pulls in MONO. Don't want Mono on my system.

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Jan 24 16:41:35 UTC 2011


Le dimanche 23 janvier 2011 à 23:11 +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a
écrit : 
> On 23/01/11 22:42, Einar Indridason wrote:
> > I am not happy to see Debian Gnome (on Squeeze) pull in Tomboy when 
> > pulling in Gnome.  (Gnome does *not* absolutely *need* to have Tomboy 
> > installed.)  It also means that Gnome pulls in (indirectly) the MONO stuff
> > and *that* is something that should be avoided in my opinion.
> > 
> > Thanks for reading this, and please reconsider.  Does Gnome *absolutely*
> > *need* to pull in the MONO stuff?
> 
> I'm tired of repeating this over and over, so I'll be brief:
> 
> Don't install the gnome metapackage if you don't like its dependencies.

Hey! You forgot to make fun of the anti-mono stupidity!

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