[ I have filed this bug in the Debian BTS. the mentioned packages names may be Debian-specific, but I still believe you get the point. ;) ]


Dear GNOME-Maintainers,

I have a minimal GNOME (i.e. only gnome-core package) installed on my 
system. The gnome-core package installs gnome-panel, but not 
gnome-system-tools (well, it suggests it and maybe this should be 
promoted to a recommends).

When I do a right-click on the Date-and-Time-panel in the upper right 
corner and select 'Adjust Date and Time' then *nothing* happens. I had 
to run gnome-panel manually from the command line to find out that it 
tries to start a program called 'time-admin' which is part of 
gnome-system-tools, which in turn is not installed by gnome-core.

I don't consider it a bug that gnome-core does not install 
gnome-system-tools by default, it should have as least dependencies as 
possible. But I consider it a bug that gnome-panel does not inform me 
that it is missing a program to do what I have actually told him to.

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Fabian


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