On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Rahul Sundaram (metherid(a)gmail.com) said:
> > But it doesn't make any sense. gnome-panel does *not* require
> > gnome-shell. We really shouldn't just go around abusing dependencies to
> > make upgrades 'work', even if it is convenient.
>
> I think users upgrading from a previous release can continue to get the
> fallback mode unless they do a group installation or try to install
> GNOME Shell specifically.
How so? When we included KDE 4, we didn't leave users on KDE 3 on
upgrade.
Similarly, when a user has GNOME installed (and yes, the gnome-panel
is GNOME), and they upgrade, they'll get the current version of GNOME.
And that's GNOME Shell.
Unless of course they have no gnome-shell-capable hardware which may
not be insignificant numbers!
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mike c