[20:36] * astraljava repaired a box and installs Mythbuntu on it, and notices it's got scrollbars in the slideshow too. [21:54] can it be fixed alacarte to have no recommends on 11.10? [21:54] or 11.04 [21:58] Hmm... I have serious trouble trying to decode such a cryptic message. What do you mean? alacarte is the menu editor. What recommends does it have? [21:59] Oh... I see. [21:59] Well I doubt it, it's not geared towards other DEs but GNOME, AFAIUI. [22:00] but we use it [22:00] and we ship it on 12.04 [22:00] Yes. But only on precise. So why would you want to drop recommends on older releases? [22:01] because there is no other menu edition tool for xfce than it [22:02] Yeah. Well, you can roll a custom .deb for it. :) [22:02] :P don't know what that is [22:03] Nah, just kidding. But you should just install it with the --no-install-recommends option. [22:03] yes, I see, well, just asking [22:05] Yeah the thing is, there's no way to make such a change in past releases. Obviously it's not going to swim into the images either, so it'll have to be installed manually anyway. Hence that option for apt-get. [22:06] What is there in recommends in the past releases? [22:11] http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/alacarte [22:11] it recommends gnome-panel [22:12] But no ' | exo-utils' like in precise? [22:13] i wouldnt know how to know that [22:13] Recommends: gnome-panel | exo-utils [22:14] That's there in the output of `apt-cache show alacarte'. [22:14] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/alacarte [22:14] ah i see, it says "or exo-utils" [22:15] no it says nothing like that [22:17] Yeah ok. Well then, it'd have to be installed with the --no-install-recommends with apt-get, I don't know whether synaptic supports such a setting (probably does).