#606936 xfce4 should recommend/depend on a calculator package

Package:
xfce4
Source:
xfce4
Submitter:
William Hales
Date:
2010-12-13 09:39:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#606936#5
Date:
2010-12-13 07:00:31 UTC
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The XFCE4 environment ( as installed from the Debian Squeeze installer CD )
does not include a calculator package by default ( with exception to
OpenOffice.Org Calc ).

Solution:  Make 'xfce4' depend/recommend a package such as 'galculator'

Regards, William
#606936#10
Date:
2010-12-13 07:59:10 UTC
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severity 606936 wishlist
tag 606936 wontfix
thanks

I'm not quite sure what's the point. The Xfce environment installed for
Squeeze only ships a default, basic desktop environment, including the
usually useful applications on top of Xfce. This means an office suite,
a browser and a media player, but then we expect our users to select
themselves the tools fitting their needs.

Xfce point is not to provide everything and the kitchen's sink (GNOME
and KDE are more about providing a *full* DE), but rather to be modular.
There are some tools which are expected by an user to be installed, but
I don't think a calc is really part of that.

Regards,
#606936#19
Date:
2010-12-13 09:23:22 UTC
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Wow, I expected Debian bug mailing lists to take days to have responses.
Thanks Yves-Alexis

I see where you are coming from.  Keeping meta-packages simple also
AFAIK stops everything being marked for removal when one component
package is removed by the user.

Regards, William
#606936#24
Date:
2010-12-13 09:37:01 UTC
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Don't get too used to that, it happens sometimes that we are
overwhelmed :)

Yeah, that too. Anyway it'd be more like adding that to the desktop
task.