mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jan 6 21:25:02 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:25 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > kdepim is in critical path as part of 'critical-path-apps', which is
> > essentially mail & web. The change that caused this to get added is that
> > the script prior to early December wasn't actually iterating over the
> > proper critpath groups, including critical-path-apps.
> 
> I think we should reconsider including these things (also critical-path-kde) 
> in critpath. We've been working fine for years without those actually being 
> marked critpath. The critpath process is just an annoyance for these 
> packages.
> 
> I'd suggest removing all of kde* from critpath, and I think most if not all 
> of KDE SIG agrees with me on this (if you want an official statement, I can 
> put it up for the next KDE SIG meeting).

Per my reading of critpath, the only desktop-level functions it includes
are 'networking' and 'install updates', which would really mean only
knetworkmanager (or whatever it's really called) and kpackagekit (ditto)
should be critpath.
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