[openbox] debian testing oddity

Andrej N. Gritsenko andrej at rep.kiev.ua
Sun Dec 22 12:02:55 EST 2013


    Hello!

General has written on Sunday, 22 December, at 15:22:
>On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:46:06 -0500
>Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> 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.


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