Shotwell 0.5

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Mar 15 21:17:20 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 01:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 03/14/2010 07:40 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> Yes, I am aware of that but  the question was related to the regular
> >> installation DVD/ CD set where if you pick the defaults, you will end up
> >> with both Shotwell and F-Spot, right?  There seems to be significant
> >> amount of overlap between those and I am wondering if that makes sense
> >> or whether we should pick Shotwell alone.
> >>     
> > We don't really control or design the 'regular installation' in any
> > form. 
> >   
> 
> To expand on what I said earlier,  all you need do is to edit the comps
> file based on the defaults you want for certain groups and if those are
> not the groups, you control and in this case I think you do, the
> procedure is outlined in
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups
> 
> In short, if users are going to end up two programs that have a broad
> overlap in functionality, we need to fix that.

I know what comps is, and I have edited the gnome-desktop group to
reflect the change for the desktop spin.

But as I said earlier, nobody is in charge of designing the DVD install.
Just making some undirected changes to comps groups is not a fix for
this problem.



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