Re: Non available suggested packages in task education-desktop-other

Frans Spiesschaert <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:22:15 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
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Hi Mike,

PS: no longer sending mails both to you and to
debian-edu, because I notice that you are subscribed
to the list (and so am I)

Mike Gabriel schreef op do 20-11-2025 om 07:23 [+0000]:
> Hi Frans,
> 
> On  Mi 19 Nov 2025 20:42:49 CET, Frans Spiesschaert wrote:
> > 2. Package kvpm shipped a GUI front end for Linux LVM and Gnu
> > parted.
> >    Kvpm depends on the KDE 4 libraries and upstream development
> >    stopped by the end of 2016. Upstream sources are still
> >    available, though.
> >    Debian now ships partitionmanager, a KDE gui
> >    file, disk and partition management tool.
> > 
> >    So I guess it would be good to replace
> >    kvpm with patitionmanager as a suggests.
> 
> Maybe do this via the education-desktop-<desktop> packages? Because  
> for MATE and GNOME we could use gnome-disk(s) which also provides
> that  
> feature (LVM etc.).
> 
> What do you think of splitting this up and using desktop-near
> utilities?

I looked into it a bit and I found that the desktops
gnome, cinnamon, and lxde depend on
     gnome-disk-utility

and that the desktops
lxqt and kde depend on
     partitionmanager

So no need for those desktops for any suggests on such a tool

On the other hand the desktops mate and xfce4 have no
disk and partition management tool installed by default

Installing gnome-disk-utility pulls in
5 packages on a mate desktop
and 7 packages on a xfce4 desktop
while installing partitionmanager pulls in
151 packages on both mate and xfce4.

So the conclusion should be
* not to suggest any disk and partition management tool
  in education-desktop-other, because all the other
  education-desktop* tasks enhance education-desktop-other
* to add a suggests on gnome-disk-utility
  in education-desktop-mate and education-desktop-xfce
 
-- 
Kind regards,
Frans Spiesschaert

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