New dependency in Fedora 8 - metacity

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sun Nov 25 23:01:57 UTC 2007


On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:45:48PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> >> As far as I understand your problem, nodoka-metacity-theme is Fedora 8
> >> default theme for metacity, so it needs metacity to be installed, but if
> > 
> > I don't think so. A theme shouldn't require the window manager, it is the
> > other way around. Especially when it is used by a lot of other things.
> > 
> > I have filled
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398521
> 
> The window manager is useful without that particular theme if it has an
> alternative to default to.  If that particular theme is useful only to that
> window manager, then the theme *should* require the window manager.

In that case it is also useful to other things since the fedora theme
and a gnome theme depend on it.

--
Pat




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