Future of panel applets

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:15 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> >
> > The difference being Firefox extensions do not have RPM packaging
> > dependencies on a program that is being overhauled as much as GNOME is.
> > Most GNOME applets require one or the other .so version provided by a
> > gnome-* package, right? This would pin down the original gnome-* package
> > which is supposed to be upgraded. Similar, yes, but very much so not the
> > same thing.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the point you're making; what concretely are
> you suggesting be done?


So - there's a way for firefox to know that plugins are non-essential
and to ignore them in an upgrade. That they are plugins.

There's no way for yum to know that an applet is not essential. We have
no information to use to determine that 'if an update is being held up
by an applet remove the applet'.

that's what the obsoletes info is providing - that hint.

-sv