ubuntu-desktop: remove python-gdchart dep

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 25 09:40:22 GMT 2006


On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:53:40PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 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!

You're unlikely to gain support for your position with this sort of tone.

-- 
 - mdz



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