Bug#563712: Cannot remove Gnome-games, Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, Rhythmbox without removing Gnome

[Milan Niznansky]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 23:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 16 mars 2011 à 21:04 +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a
> écrit : 
> > The real "only GNOME" metapackage is gnome-desktop-environment. This is
> > confusing, we should probably fix it for the GNOME 3 metapackages.
> 
> How about renaming gnome to gnome-full ? I think the other names are
> somehow consistent.
> 

gnome-full is very developer-logical but IMO not really intuitive for a
user

I would suggest "debian-desktop" or "gnome-desktop",its name shall speak
for itself for Debian hacks and beginners alike.


However, Even if the "gnome" package gets a better name, the issue of
its problematic removal will still stand.

Probably not only me would feel it more intuitive if its direct
dependencies are installed(or marked) non-automatically in default
install. So that when user tries to remove some of them they do not run
into the issue I and the OP have.

IMO it is a much rarer situation someone wants to remove gnome per se
than getting rid of just a few packages here and there.
And for removing gnome he needs a guide regardless while the packages
could be installed in a way their removal is effortless.