Idea #8629: No restricted package dependencies with ubuntu-desktop

Written by noodlesgc the 15 May 08 at 20:09. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Ubuntu is supposed to be free software, yes sometimes we absolutely need wireless drivers, .rar extractors, or Adobe flash plugins. However, these packages should not be dependencies of the ubuntu-desktop meta- package.
Try installing the program VRMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms ) and you will see that ubuntu-desktop depends on some non-free art, and linux-restricted modules.

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vexorian wrote on the 16 May 08 at 01:25

ubuntu-desktop doesn't depend on linux-restricted-modules

All what human-icon-theme has done wrong is use the attribution alike license. For art it really doesn't make sense to push totally free stuff, it is just art, I can't see it taking the same danger as proprietary software, and I think it is horribly easy to remove it. Nobody is getting addicted to the human-theme...

noodlesgc wrote on the 16 May 08 at 16:23

Yes, I do not like the Human icon theme, and it is not completely free, thats why I want to uninstall it. But Its usually not a good idea to remove the ubuntu-desktop package.

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