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FS#16304 - [tomboy] tomboy package should not depend on full Gnome desktop

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sam (smls) - Monday, 21 September 2009, 16:10 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 21 September 2009, 16:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

"pacman -S tomboy" wants to install gnome-desktop, gnome-panel, gnome-menus, gnome-icon-theme and quite a few more.

This is unfortunate, as I don't want/need Gnome installed but would like to use tomboy as part of my KDE desktop.
Also I guess unnecessarily requiring Gnome could be said to conflict with the Arch principle of minimalism... ;-)

In comparison, in Ubuntu the tomboy package does *not* require the actual Gnome desktop, only libgnome and libgnomepanel (see http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/tomboy). When installing tomboy through apt-get with --no-install-recommends, Gnome will *not* be installed.

Shouldn't the same be possible for Arch Linux?

(Btw, the same issue seems to apply to gnote (tomboy c++ port) in the 'community' repository - should I file a second bug report for that?)

Additional info:
* package version: tomboy-0.14.2-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 21 September 2009, 16:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  We don't provide split gnome-panel packages.

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