On Thursday 18 June 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, jtd wrote:
Unless some sense is knocked into some brain dead developers in debian and ubuntu, i for one will stop using both. One of the developers of a note taking app -tomtom or somesuch - ( we know how important note taking is to the survival of the whole universe), is dragging in the whole patent infested Mono library into debian and Ubuntu. 40+ MB of patent crap for a note taking app???. Something has gone real rotten in debian.
Of course one can go about getting rid of it, but if a distro is going to be as brain dead, one might as well ditch it at the first opportunity.
Well, none of this happens if you first install the barebones system and then install just the packages you desire.
Really? Gnome is the default desktop with Debian and Ubuntu. And one would be recommending Ubuntu to many first timers.
Tomboy has been made a dependency of the "gnome" metapackage,
Why? Especially when it is encumbered? and there exists gnotes.
so all you need to do is to do a base install and avoid saying "apt-get install gnome". Nobody is forcing you to choose the Gnome desktop option during install, so your point is moot.
How about putting that crap else where and saying apt-get install some-rubbish. That way you put self in the soup, rather than trying to extract self.
The whole logic of making gnome dependent on mono is thoroughly perverse.