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

[Christian Schaller]

Yes agreed, I mean if you are proficient enough to want to micromanage what software is installed with your desktop then I am sure removing the metapackage is within your skillset too. Of course the metapackage needs to stay somewhat trim here, but that is fine too as I think the new Software installer will reduce the need for stuff to be pre-installed as we can give new applications visibility in the installer as opposed to having to default install them for visibility.

Christian

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From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Cc: "Christian Schaller" <cschalle at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:40:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fedup to f20 didn't automatically pull down gnome-software

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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