Here's what happened to xfwm4

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon May 12 23:00:37 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>
>>>> How ought I have found xfce-desktop? "yum grouplist" gives me XFCE, 
>>>> but not xfce-desktop and that leaves me wondering whether there are 
>>>> other groups I don't see. Something for icewm or fcwm for example.
>>>
>>> I answered this just a week or so back in here.  xfce-desktop is just 
>>> an alias for "XFCE" as specified in comps.xml file.
>>>
>>> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/comps/comps-f9.xml.in?view=markup
>>
>>
>> Nobody should be expect to go there and read that stuff. If those 
>> names in the <id>..</id> tags are installable, they should also be 
>> reportable.
> 
> They are. Some of them just have hidden aliases which nobody needs to 
> care. If you don't know, you would just use what is visible which is
> 
> # yum groupinstall "XFCE"
> 
> # yum grouplist hidden as Seth Vidal indicated if you really want to know.
> 
>> What would Aunty Indira say if Nephew told her to read that?
> 
> That's just silly. If something has a hidden alias in a command line, 
> Aunty Indira wouldn't even care.

I asked how I might have found xfce-desktop by myself (a much better 
name I might add) and you said to read that.

As I've already noted, "hidden" does not show it, it's not a hidden 
package so far as I could see, but identified by different tags.



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John

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