laughlin-backgrounds-gnome size increase

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Sat Oct 16 22:15:08 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 19:34 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:

> > That grew by 1MB, probably due to
> > increased complexity of the wallpaper. I'd investigate this one more
> > throughout if I were you.
> 
> If I were or a member of the design team I would not push changes like
> this one that late. I think this level of carelessness is inappropriate.
> 
> There are three solutions:
>       * A gnome-desktop-libs package, but it is too late to change for
>         F14.
>       * Make gnome-desktop not depend on system-backgrounds-gnome.
>       * Revert the changes on laughlin-backgrounds-gnome.

The system-backgrounds (-gnome) virtual provides were introduced with
for the explicit purpose of making gnome-desktop require them...

Imo, reverting the changes to the background packages is the most
conservative and appropriate action at this time.



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