-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2012 05:48 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > The problem is that it becomes more and more difficult to install a > system without all sorts of (for me and others) useless components > such as PA. The reason is lots of hard dependencies that should be > optional extensions instead. I'm asking this out of ignorance rather than rhetorically: How much of this is the distribution and how much of this is gnome? I know, for instance, if I install an Ubuntu or Mint system, they have these meta-packages that have all these dependencies to pull in, in this example, a complete gnome. Is that really the fault of upstream? - -- David Benfell benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQJuyjAAoJELT202JKF+xpMNkP/jVkSUC66UpsAdxcNHBdDJex Wyhyjv2SAw46UMZovxLdPf64UTa2wEt9yZ0pw58PqZ3LLCfLy4b+gJ/Dr5+KPq6/ F2vsBrSBvi443DIWAockbXglfuJ6LCNxjFjgTSL+y5gsOR5OyoDaq1wLXFzRngN/ pkCRyur77A1QrEuo/vw7rZtxz4xuGIbtRMfnCupxUZpvWtK/Lss1jWSYZpQxHYQ/ 7Gtx0sHerZuv8uHkVybvd6/q7hKbBGFPBHG5KFvllXrhhzQ2LMrQFiErRDjYZhxz eVOeASpp+cB5ydVhU0RousFD6rkaaK6fCsEYoeT9biGPBTUUC+mLbSCf+3v7+Lil jE4+pQI3Eb7skLvrDZOGvOJQDzqftikku4POGYdZopkn1FnFRicEyHkzjgDT5O8D OOOc6hIBGbIHZ5iKf3ofxc/xgGabGFrWHpaH/4A9KFQh+DS6Y2yTQA2gtpfTGIlO 2InMymcmdyO9Y7FmTTW1u+gIL+wd3LbQtdKaHVApFBx+zT5oBfbip7Sv074ApH9D 35ij2KeBXKPToknI9qFtYVeQnunnvt+Lva/VzLZoivkwgTBABA3pbdR6CzTp3Xf0 2+Tc193QnW0ZUrZkQHVTW4PdqxXztEV66WhYnD0yPHlkzujPx2a4Pc3Sh7i6Qdhc Hl9rw1NHHyzOBGCF/lNV =2yEA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----