XFCE on F21 desktop

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 19:32:50 UTC 2014


On 23.11.2014 19:50, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:47:08 +0100
> poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 23.11.2014 18:48, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:33:29 +0100
>>> Heinz Diehl <htd+ml at fritha.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> up to F20, I used the respective 4 GB full DVD image to install
>>>> Fedora, which also contained the XFCE desktop. Now, with F21,
>>>> there's a desktop and a server edition, and it seems the full DVD
>>>> is missing.
>>>
>>> Right. There is no mish mash dvd anymore. 
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps mishmash-ed is decision to drop something useful to many
>> folks around the globe.
> 
> It's perfectly easy to make your own dvd with whatever you like on it. 
> Or install whatever you want from Fedora many other ways. 
> 

Alice in Wonderland, I talk about the needs of others, not about what I can, pour moi.
Throwing DVD is very cheap move by Fedora folks.

>>>> Does the desktop edition also contain the XFCE desktop, or do I
>>>> have to use any XFCE spin now to get XFCE? And where are all the
>>>> development packages and libs, are they still on both editions?
>>>
>>> Workstation does not have the Xfce packages on the media. 
>>> You can of course install Workstation, then 'yum groupinstall
>>> xfce-desktop'. 
>>>
>>
>> This is a joke?
>> Man asks for Xfce and you're offering GNOME "wrapped" as Workstation, 
>> only to be able to install what he needs.
>> You, as the maintainer of the Xfce group.
> 
> No, it's ONE option of a list of them.... (see the ones below which you
> didn't respond to). 
>  

Et tu, Brute.
Yeah, start devising new excuses.

>>> You can also use the Xfce spin images, which haven't gone anywhere. 
>>>
>>> You could also get the network installer and choose Xfce when you
>>> install. 
>>>
>>> development packages and libs aren't on any images that I know of,
>>> but you can install them with yum or dnf or the like after install. 
> 
> kevin
> 
> 
> 



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