Hope Gnote replaces Tomboy
Hope Gnote replaces Tomboy
Posted Sep 24, 2009 2:20 UTC (Thu) by SEMW (guest, #52697)In reply to: Hope Gnote replaces Tomboy by coriordan
Parent article: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28
Technically true, but misleading. Tomboy is a dependency of the "gnome" metapackage, yes. But the "gnome" metapackage is just the metapackage for all gnome-related projects, so certainly should have Tomboy. The default Gnome Desktop install is the "gnome-desktop" metapackage, which does not contain either Tomboy nor mono.
> I guess they looked into removing it but found the depth of Tomboy's integration into GNOME to be such that removing it would be quite a bit of work.
What integration? Removing Tomboy from gnome takes all of 10 seconds and one "apt-get remove tomboy", and removes only tomboy -- "apt-cache rdepends tomboy" lists nothing that depend on tomboy whatsoever. (That's on Ubuntu, I doubt it's different on Debian proper).
> The existence of Mono is great, but it has to be distributed in a way such that it could be painlessly removed from every distribution the day MS starts spreading patent FUD
Removing mono altogether ("apt-get purge mono") takes not that much longer than removing Tomboy; and removes, apart from the mono libraries, only tomboy and f-spot (and gnome-do and bless for me, but they're not gnome projects). So, with respect, I'm not certain MS is the only one spreading FUD here.
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