Replacements for ThunderBird and FireFox

[Wesley Hearn]

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On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:45:45 +0100
Gauvain Pocentek <gauvainpocentek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Harold Aling wrote:
> > Stefan Schwarzburg wrote:
> >   
> >> And its always a bit stupid to have a lot of unused software 
> >> Xubuntu.deb depends on ...
> >>
> >>     
> > True: After installing Xubuntu, I almost immediately remove Abiword, as 
> > it has real problems with MS Word compatibility (at least the documents 
> > I tested it with).
> >
> > How about separate meta packages?
> >
> > For example: "Xubuntu-base", "Xubuntu-default-applications" and 
> > "Xubuntu-default-games"?
> >   
> 
> It will a mess to maintain this.
> Maybe we could set more dependencies as Recommended deps. It will allow 
> the users to remove them without removing xubuntu-desktop (I'm not sure 
> that Abiword should be a recommended app though).
> 
> Gauvain
> 

If they are installing from another *buntu this would cause problems if they wanted the full package.. 
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