On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 17:40:31 -0400,
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:26:35PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 17:21:57 -0400,
> >I assume it might breach some packaging policy, but why not have a
'desktop' rpm which requires all other packages we consider part of the desktop
for a given release? That way when we add new applications like this we just add it as a
dependency of the desktop package?
> Because if it is not necessary then it causes problems for people
> who want to run systems without them (perhaps to keep the disk
> footprint small). We have put in temporary requires to accomplish
> this, but temporary in this context is two releases since we support
> (more or less) skipping one release.
In that case, can't you just remove the metapackage?
If you made a separate meta package. Note the meta package would also have
to be installed in the prior release, so it wouldn't solve both problems
in this particular case.