Re: RFE: allow removal of single gnome-utils app

[Rafael Gattringer <rafael gattringer floss flowconsult at>]

Thank you, that's actually great. I will give it a try in the Ubuntu world.

Bye, Rafael






On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Rafael Gattringer
> <rafael gattringer floss flowconsult at> wrote:
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> recently I wanted to remove a single app of the gnome-utils package
>> but couldn't. Since the apps are bundled, I would have to remove all
>> the other apps at the same time.
>
> (...)
>
>> So the idea would be to split gnome-utils into single applications.
>> gnome-utils could be retained as a "meta-package"(?) like
>> non-free-codecs of medibuntu.org.
>
> This is a packaging problem in your distribution, in other
> distributions tools from gnome-utils are available as separate
> packages.
>
> --
> Patryk Zawadzki
>