Bug#788690: file-roller: Please provide a separate package for the nautilus extension

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi

Am 14.06.2015 um 12:17 schrieb Margarita Manterola:
> Package: file-roller
> Version: 3.16.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> File-roller currently provides a unique package that includes the nautilus
> extension and therefore has libnautilus-extension1a and nautilus-data as
> dependencies (which means that also nautilus and other gnome programs are pulled
> in). It would be better to have a separate package (for example,
> fileroller-nautilus) that would provide the extension file and have the nautilus
> dependencies.
> 
> With this strategy it would be possible to have a file-roller package that
> doesn't force nautilus installation. So that users of other file managers (like
> nemo or thunar) can install file-roller without also installing unused programs
> (nautilus and the rest of the gnome deps).
> 
> This would mean changing the gnome package to depend on fileroller-nautilus as
> well as file-roller. As an option, to avoid having to make that change,
> file-roller could include a recommends, like this:

I'm not too thrilled by the thought of that, tbh.
file-roller also requires the nautils gsettings schema from nautilus-data.


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