ubuntu-desktop: remove python-gdchart dep

[John Richard Moser]

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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:11:21PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
>>Trying to upgrade Nessus on Dapper makes the following removals:
>>
>>libgdchart-gd1-noxpm
>>python-gdchart
>>ubuntu-desktop
>>
>>Apparently ubuntu-desktop 0.91 depends on an arbitrary library and/or
>>python extension; removing these only removes ubuntu-desktop.  Is there
>>any particular reason for this dependency, or is it legacy and removable?
> 
> 
> python-gdchart needs to be updated for libgd2.  Unfortunately, this will
> require some code changes and is not simply a matter of rebuilding, so it
> make take some time before it catches up.
> 

And python-gdchart is all important because it's used by. . umm. .
.gimp, wait no. . .umm.  Rhythmbox-- no, wait.  Firefox!  . . .oh, that
doesn't depend on gdchart either.

Whoa, holy shitty design batman, a meta-package depends on a package
that none of the installed applications actually depend on!  Instead of
just conflicting the two against eachother, they mandated that the
desktop will have this useless developer's package!

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