Gnome Panel needs Mono?!

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 19 12:08:54 UTC 2007


Jim Cornette wrote:
> Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to run another set of updates in rawhide and noticed one thing
>> I think is very bad - gnome-panel pushes tomboy which in turn pushes all
>> the C# stuff in. I simply don't understand why should gnome-panel
>> require tomboy (the more it is turned off safely on archs where tomboy
>> isn't available and the more it worked without problems without it so
>> far). Until this is fixed I will either rebuild gnome-panel package
>> without the dependency on tomboy, or stay with gnome-panel-2.19.92-4.fc8.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
>>
> 
> Why the push for C# applications? Is it a SuSE & Microsoft move?

The OP's question was reasonable. You are adding unnecessary flames to 
it. Don't do that. I assume it was done to pull in Tomboy by default 
since it part of GNOME and installed by default but can probably be done 
better via comps.xml. Same goes for gthumb and GNOME volume manager.

Rahul




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