[20:36]  * astraljava repaired a box and installs Mythbuntu on it, and notices it's got scrollbars in the slideshow too.
[21:54] <GridCube> can it be fixed alacarte to have no recommends on 11.10?
[21:54] <GridCube> or 11.04
[21:58] <astraljava> 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] <astraljava> Oh... I see.
[21:59] <astraljava> Well I doubt it, it's not geared towards other DEs but GNOME, AFAIUI.
[22:00] <GridCube> but we use it
[22:00] <GridCube> and we ship it on 12.04
[22:00] <astraljava> Yes. But only on precise. So why would you want to drop recommends on older releases?
[22:01] <GridCube> because there is no other menu edition tool for xfce than it
[22:02] <astraljava> Yeah. Well, you can roll a custom .deb for it. :)
[22:02] <GridCube> :P don't know what that is
[22:03] <astraljava> Nah, just kidding. But you should just install it with the --no-install-recommends option.
[22:03] <GridCube> yes, I see, well, just asking
[22:05] <astraljava> 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] <astraljava> What is there in recommends in the past releases?
[22:11] <GridCube> http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/alacarte
[22:11] <GridCube> it recommends gnome-panel
[22:12] <astraljava> But no ' | exo-utils' like in precise?
[22:13] <GridCube> i wouldnt know how to know that
[22:13] <astraljava> Recommends: gnome-panel | exo-utils
[22:14] <astraljava> That's there in the output of `apt-cache show alacarte'.
[22:14] <GridCube> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/alacarte
[22:14] <GridCube> ah i see, it says "or exo-utils"
[22:15] <GridCube> no it says nothing like that
[22:17] <astraljava> 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).