[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Jan Claeys]

Op zo, 02-07-2006 te 17:20 -0400, schreef Lee Revell:
> One obvious problem besides the fonts is that half the packages it
> wants to install are python:
> 
> python-adns python-apt python-cddb python-clientcookie python-crypto
> python-egenix-mxproxy python-egenix-mxstack python-egenix-mxtexttools
> python-egenix-mxtools python-epydoc python-eunuchs python-examples
> python-gadfly python-gd python-gdbm python-genetic python-geoip
> python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gnupginterface
> python-gst0.10 python-htmlgen python-htmltmpl python-id3lib
> python-imaging python-imaging-sane python-jabber python-kjbuckets
> python-ldap python-mysqldb python-netcdf python-newt python-numeric
> python-pam python-parted python-pexpect python-pgsql python-pisock
> python-pqueue python-pyao python-pylibacl python-pyogg
> python-pyopenssl
> python-pyorbit python-pyvorbis python-pyxattr python-reportlab
> python-simpletal python-soappy python-sqlite python-stats python-syck
> python-tk python-unit python-vte python-xdg python-xml python-xmpp
[snip the python 2.4 versions of the meta-packages above]
> There's no way that those are all installed to satisfy real
> dependencies. 

There are no python modules that are direct dependencies of
ubuntu-desktop itself, but there are some programs written in python
like deskbar-applet, Serpentine, the HP printing system and some
GNOME/Ubuntu configuration applets and system tools (e.g. the
update-manager) that might depend on those modules...


-- 
Jan Claeys