Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Upstream change or not, you're pissing off users to save 59k out of
> however many gigabytes a minimal GNOME install is. I shouldn't really
> presume to speak for others, but for me focus-follows-mouse is wired
> into the fingertips --- it's not a negotiable UI change, it WILL cause
> me to leave a distro. Or stop using GNOME, if they are stupid enough
> to try to kill it altogether.
You're making the assumption that the change was made to save
space. It
wasn't. I can't find the original thread right now, but it's part of a
cleanup on configuration tools. Upstream felt it no longer necessary to
expose this, our Fedora maintainer decided to make it available via a
subpackage.
The question is why that package isn't part of the default install.
regards, tom lane