Author: Jack Knight Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Dependency Madness - was Debian Etch and
Synaptic?
Alan Pope wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 09:25 +0000, Jack Knight wrote:
>> Jim Kissel wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Now I don't know much about building a distro, but I fail to understand
>>> why nautilus/metecity/gnome/xorgwhich needs to have a 'C' pre-processor
>>> installed. Any offers?
>> On the same line as your recent post, I don't get on with the Totem
>> media player.
>
> Personally I would recommend you use totem-xine rather than
> totem-gstreamer, it seems to be able to play a lot more.
Thanks Al, but I'd rather just use mplayer for everything, because it
really *does* seem to play just about anything given the right codecs.
I've googled, hacked and fiddled, removed totem completely and firefox 2
*still* tries to open stuff with totem. I've removed caches, changed
mime types and finally symlinked /usr/bin/totem to /usr/bin/gmplayer,
which kind of works albeit ps ax shows totem running!
Any better ideas or pointers to search? Tried various threads on
ubuntuforums to name a few.
TiA
Jack >
>> It never plays anything I want to hear or view, despite
>> installing various codecs. mplayer works flawlessly however, so why when
>> I try to remove totem, totem-mozila plugin or totem-gstreamer does it
>> tell me I need to remove the whole of "ubuntu-desktop".
>>
>
> Because ubuntu-desktop is a meta-package which pulls in all the standard
> delivered ubuntu applications.
>
> If for example you install an ubuntu server - a minimal install with no
> GUI, and wanted to turn it into a desktop, you would just install
> ubuntu-desktop which would in turn pull in everything else.
>
> Yes, you can remove ubuntu-desktop, but the problem is if that package
> has other things which it depends upon which later on down the line you
> wont get because you dont have the meta package.
>
>> This is on edgy BTW, don't know about dapper/feisty but suspect its the
>> same.
>
> It's the same for every release of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu with the
> meta packages being ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop
> respectively.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
