Fedup to f20 didn't automatically pull down gnome-software

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 2 21:40:31 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:26:35PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 17:21:57 -0400,
> >I assume it might breach some packaging policy, but why not have a 'desktop' rpm which requires all other packages we consider part of the desktop for a given release? That way when we add new applications like this we just add it as a dependency of the desktop package?
> Because if it is not necessary then it causes problems for people
> who want to run systems without them (perhaps to keep the disk
> footprint small). We have put in temporary requires to accomplish
> this, but temporary in this context is two releases since we support
> (more or less) skipping one release.

In that case, can't you just remove the metapackage?



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