Re: debian testing oddity
"Andrej N. Gritsenko" <andrej-upE6+l1o30/[email protected]>
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Hello! General has written on Sunday, 22 December, at 15:22: >On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:46:06 -0500 >Jim Rees <[email protected]> wrote: >> General wrote: >> >> Thank you very much. That's very helpful. I wasn't aware of 'recommends'. >> Sheesh! and I thought I knew what i was doing :) >> >> So was that the problem? I don't think debian should be adding gnome-session >> to the recommended dependencies for openbox. Many of us run openbox because >> we don't want all the bloat of the popular desktops, so sucking in all of >> gnome seems rude. >Indeed it was. Incidentally that script will no longer work as there is now an >option in synaptic itself pre-checked to treat recommends as dependencies - >I've no idea when that was added. >I have another machine with a similar setup, and by clearing this, was able to >upgrade it without the same problems. >I agree that even recommending gnome is daft (let alone gnome3), and to >effectively completely reconfigure the desktop without warning is a big NO! >Thanks again. That recommended dependency clearly violates Debian Policy 7.2 and I've asked maintainer of Openbox in Debian to revert his change ASAP. Thank you. Andriy. _______________________________________________ openbox mailing list [email protected] http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox