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Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

From	Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome
Date	2018-11-06 16:00 +0100
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	Hi.

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:42:39PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:24:22PM -0500, David Parker wrote:
> > Thanks for the information.  I guess I'm just surprised that the
> > dependencies are limited to firefox/firefox-esr/chromium.  Seems like other
> > browsers like Iceweasel are just arbitrarily left out.
> 
> This is partially because we don't have a virtual package for
> "x-www-browser" (I think we should, but haven't done the work to
> convince anyone of this yet), although there is a "gnome-www-browser".

So it kind of makes sense for gnome-core to depend on gnome-www-browser,
isn't it? Or there's a reason why using gnome-www-browser is unsuitable
for GNOME DE?

Reco

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Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome David Parker <dparker@utica.edu> - 2018-11-05 18:00 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-05 18:10 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-05 18:10 +0100
    Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome David Parker <dparker@utica.edu> - 2018-11-05 20:30 +0100
      Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-05 20:40 +0100
        Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-11-05 20:50 +0100
      Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-06 03:20 +0100
      Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-06 13:50 +0100
        Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-06 16:00 +0100
          Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-07 16:50 +0100
            Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-08 03:00 +0100
              Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-08 17:00 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-08 17:10 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-09 03:20 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-09 12:50 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-09 12:50 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-26 10:50 +0100
    Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 03:10 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-11-06 09:50 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 20:10 +0100

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