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Autor: Antony Stone
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING
On Thursday 15 June 2017 12:23:26 KatolaZ wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:40:32PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
>
> > How does this work out on a Debian system when you select a different DE,
> > then?
>
> You still get gconf, gnome-keyring, and other goodies installed, even
> if you are using xmonad. That's how it works out. And I personally
> find it pretty annoying.


Hm :(

> Just to make an example, it is still very hard for me to understand
> why a packge like grace (which is a lesstif program to produce X-Y
> plots) should depend on gconf2. The motivation provided by the
> maintainer is that he decided to include a thumbnailer which allow
> GNOME-related file managers to provide a preview of grace files, and
> gconf was not able to add the needed xml stanzas easily if it was not
> already installed. Hence, they required gconf to be installed before
> grace in order for this thumbnailer to be recognised by gconf.


No chance of getting things like this reduced from "depends" to "recommends",
I suppose?


Antony.

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