Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 15:57:29 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:41:17PM +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
> >> To me a perfect solution would be to place the release notes in
> >> gnome-control-center's 'Details' section. It seems like an
> >> appropriate
> >> location and is better suited to these sorts of things since it is
> >> not
> >> somewhere like ~/Documents in which they are user-removable.
> >> This approach would of course require downstream patches, however.
> >
> > Or we could display them on an optional spoke in anaconda.
> 
> That's just silly.

Release notes used to be displayed in Anaconda, and AIUI removing them
allowed trimming a bunch of otherwise unused code.  I doubt the
Anaconda upstream wants to shove all that stuff back into the
installer.

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