comps changes for f15

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Jan 12 15:55:38 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 13:43 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, all. Just wondering if changes to comps for F15 (GNOME 3) have been
> considered already. It'd be good to have any necessary changes made ASAP
> so that nightlies start to resemble what F15 final will look like, as
> much as possible.
> 
> For a start it seems sensible to make gnome-shell mandatory, and maybe
> gnome-panel would be default rather than mandatory. Per
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658605 , we'll also need
> gnome-themes-standard to be installed by default, and I'm not sure
> anything currently causes that; though adding it to comps may not be the
> best approach, as that won't fix updates.
> 
> Are there any other necessary changes?

I've made a first pass over comps and the spin kickstart files. Some
things I've made:

- replace gnome-themes by gnome-themes-standard, as you've noticed
- don't include librsvg3 (which had only a very brief existence)
- update our exclusions to exclude libreoffice instead of ooo

After these changes, I end up with a 730M desktop spin, even without
rhythmbox.

As far as further necessary changes, I see at least the following:

- finish packaging cantarell fonts, and include them

- smoke out perl dependencies again 

- look at other ways to save some space



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