further package removals/potential package removals

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Mon Jan 24 17:59:51 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:17 +0100, Peter Backlund wrote:
> 
> To me, this seems to be the best and simplest solution. The requirement
> for gnome-vfs2-smb is apparently there to make sure the default install
> has certain funcionality, so why not delegate that responsibility to the
> installation program (i.e. Anaconda)? If the user wants to remove it
> later, fine. On upgrades, gnome-vfs2-smb will be upgraded if it's
> installed, otherwise it won't be installed. 

This course of action has the priorities backward. Priority 1 is that
people
get the functionality they expect. Priority 2 is that tweakers and
tuners
can save a little disk space.

Havoc





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