gnome-screensaver - inappropriate for inclusion in breezy

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Tue Sep 20 15:52:59 CDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:15 -0400, SickTwist wrote:
> 
> If you install xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver and the ubuntu-desktop
> metapackage are the only things removed. This does not effect anything
> else. 

Not correct here (upgraded from a fresh hoary install to breezy months
ago). Lots of stuff is automatically installed by ubuntu-desktop and
gets removed when ubuntu-desktop gets removed:

mario at phonic: ~ $ sudo aptitude install xscreensaver
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  bluez-cups bluez-pcmcia-support bluez-pin bluez-utils bsh fastjar
  firefox-gnome-support g++-4.0 gcj-4.0 gij gij-4.0 hotkey-setup
hplip-base
  hplip-data hplip-ppds java-common java-gcj-compat language-selector
  libbluetooth1 libgcj6-awt libgcj6-dev libgcj6-src libgnucrypto-java
  libgnujaxp-java libgnujaxp-jni libjaxp1.2-java libjessie-java
libmdbtools
  libmyspell3c2 libneon24 libportaudio0 libsablot0 libsnmp-base libsnmp5
  libstdc++6-4.0-dev libstlport4.6c2 libwpd8c2 libxalan2-java
  libxerces2-java libxt-java odbcinst1debian1 openoffice.org2
  openoffice.org2-base openoffice.org2-calc openoffice.org2-common
  openoffice.org2-core openoffice.org2-draw openoffice.org2-evolution
  openoffice.org2-gnome openoffice.org2-impress
openoffice.org2-l10n-en-us
  openoffice.org2-math openoffice.org2-writer python-uno readahead-list
  serpentine ttf-mgopen usplash
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  miscfiles xli
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  gnome-screensaver ubuntu-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  miscfiles xli xscreensaver
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-screensaver ubuntu-desktop
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 60 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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