Yes agreed, I mean if you are proficient enough to want to micromanage what software is
installed with your desktop then I am sure removing the metapackage is within your
skillset too. Of course the metapackage needs to stay somewhat trim here, but that is fine
too as I think the new Software installer will reduce the need for stuff to be
pre-installed as we can give new applications visibility in the installer as opposed to
having to default install them for visibility.
Christian
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From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop"
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Cc: "Christian Schaller" <cschalle(a)redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Fedup to f20 didn't automatically pull down gnome-software
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?
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