On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 17:17:38 +0100,
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Glad to hear that, but it's not really a solution. In the past we had to
reduce the number of applications with every release because the
dependency footprint became worse and worse. Now we cannot even ship
gnumeric in the Xfce spin any longer. I am pretty sure our users don't
want us to spend the new space with an additional desktop they cannot /
don't want use.
It buys time. In this case I think it makes sense to have a dependency for
two release to help people upgrading. After that I would expect the dependency
to be dropped as people should have already upgraded or be doing fresh
installs, so that they have gnome shell.