xfce4-indicator-plugin pulls in lots of unnecessary packages

[Mario Limonciello]

Currently xfce4-indicator-plugin Recommends indicator-messages-gtk2. This causes indicator-messages, some mission control plugins, gwibber and a bunch of other dependencies in.

I would prefer that it didn't recommend any specific indicator. That way you didn't have to have the entire indicator stack installed by default but can instead just seed the packages you want.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xfce4-indicator-plugin 0.3.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 2 00:07:18 2011
InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110802)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-indicator-plugin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Yeah, we could do that (the current situation is because someone added gwibber as a recommends of indicator-messages as a temporary workaround). Let's fix that after alpha 3.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Is this a duplicate of Bug #819519 ?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Yeah if that's fixed, indciator-messages being pulled in isn't a big deal on it's own.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!