[Fwd: Re: Mono (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)]

[Wulfy]

>
> Joel wrote:
>
> On Dec 16, 2007 9:05 PM, Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >  Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> >  > Well as for removing Mono, I think it's definitely not an option to
> >  > be put on the table, because dependent applications with it are
> >  > essentials that provides many capabilities and functionalities, that
> >  > are simple and easy to use. Removing it would seems to be a very
> >  > "abnormal" decision.
> >  >
> >
> >  What applications are dependent on Mono?  I don't see anything in the
> > reverse depends apart from coco and mono-dev...
> >
> >
>
> The 'mono' package is not installed by default, just the 'libmono*'.
> There are 2 applications that are dependent on those libraries, Tomboy
> and F-Spot.
> Tomboy Notes is included in Gnome as default. I think F-Spot's
> inclusion is Ubuntu's decision.
> Other than F-Spot and Tomboy, there are also Banshee, and Beagle that
> are dependent on libmono.
>
> Cheers
Ah.  It's a GNOME thing...  I run Kubuntu and I don't think anything in 
KDE depends on it.

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