On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 19:23 +0100, pbrobinson(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a reason that the gnome-desktop group contains both gnome-2
> and gnome-3 desktops? Is it possible to split them out. Its not hard
> to add both groups into a livecd kickstart file but it makes it much
> harder to install one or the other. This becomes a problem on the OLPC
> where we have between 1 and 4 Gb of storage and neither hardware
> release (nor the upcoming ARM based devices I suspect) will run gnome
> 3. I tried to install a plain "gnome desktop" from a F-14 alpha RC
> onto my eeePC 901 which has a 4 Gb primary SSD and in F-13 had
> Sugar/gnome and moblin on it with about 800Mb free and with F-14 I
> can't even install the standard gnome desktop as the installer says
> there's not enough space.
>
> Can we do a gnome-desktop for the current gnome2 desktop and a
> gnome-desktop3 group for the gtk3/gnome3 components as it seems that
> gnome2 is something that will be needed or used by a number of groups
> for some time to come.
Desktop team is in the middle of backing out all the GNOME 3 stuff for
F14, it's been delayed to F15.
So the comps group will be split as well? I think this should remain
split even in F-15 as there's a lot of scenarios where you might want
one or the other.
Peter