Netbook Remix launcher

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 20:24 +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> I phrased it as "Both have easy workarounds so the priority would be
> low.", but "Gnome's resources" are irrelevant AFAICT, 

ok

> all that is
> required is for Debian or Ubuntu to set e-d-s-c etc. as recommended
> (by gnome-panel) rather than required. 

... and possibly do some packaging work to move affected applets out of
gnome-panel and/or provide an explanation in the applet chooser GUI for
why they do not work.

IMHO it's up to the people who would actually spend the time on this, to
decide whether it's worth it to allow saving 8 MB disk space in some
limited situations.

> What doesn't seem worthwhile is this huge thread
> over such a small issue.

Agreed

> This is easy to test with
>   dpkg --force-depends -r evolution-data-server-common
> As expected apt complains a bit, but gnome-panel works just fine
> regardless, including clock and calendar (on 8.04 anyway).

I know :) but there are other(s?) who don't. As I wrote above, *some*
work would be needed either in packaging or GUI

> As I see it, the larger problem is that apt likes cut-and-burn
> solutions where anything slightly out of the ordinary results in
> rather unrelated and often vital components getting removed.

Despite improvements in Ubuntu I still think that metapackages in their
current form don't cut it for non-expert users.

> Downgrading "requires" to "recommends" where appropriate is a good
> start, and I understand this is the Ubuntu approved solution to
> problems like this.

Yup