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[Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/2/18 Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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> On 02/18/2011 10:59 AM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote:
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> > Installing Lubuntu 10.04 to a friend, i watched something strange
> > while upgrading the system:
>
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
> > debconf: (Unable to load Gnome... is libgnome2-perl installed?)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
>
> > And after this it continues to install the package. But the system
> > prints this message for every package to install...
>
> Why do you think this is a bug?  What issue or harm does it cause?  You
> should only see this is you look at the "details" window during the
> package installation from upgrade-manager, most users never see it.
>
> As far as I know, this is just debconf looking for GNOME and not finding
> it, which I would consider normal expected behaviour (since LUbuntu does
> not include GNOME!), and so this is (as far as I can see) not a bug.
>
> If this message results in failed installations, or the message in
> itself causes a problem for you, please state more clearly what the
> problem is.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
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So, according to you it doesn't affect that each time a package is installed
or uninstalled the system tries to find something and fails: this is a
process that sure last less than a second... but Lubuntu is for old-spec
hardware, so "here", "less than a second" can be a second for "other person"
with older hardware (and multiplied for each package you're
un/installing...).
And so, everybody here knows that Lubuntu doesn't include Gnome... that's
why a call for something gnome-called looks bad.

The process automatically falls back to the frontend "dialog"... i'm just
saying that if it's possible, this should be done by default in Lubuntu.

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