gnome-desktop meta package

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 3 07:56:33 UTC 2010


Jon Masters wrote:
> I just did a SPARC install (thanks to Dennis for the assistance too) and
> elected only for a very minimal install. I then decided to add GNOME
> bits just to see what worked for curiosity. I did an "yum install
> gnome-desktop", thinking this would pull in nautilus, etc.
> 
> I don't think this is a secondary arch thing, but wouldn't it make sense
> that this would pull in more than a few packages?

gnome-desktop is not a metapackage, it's a library.

| The gnome-desktop package contains an internal library
| (libgnomedesktop) used to implement some portions of the GNOME
| desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the
| GNOME user environment.

        Kevin Kofler



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