Xfce critical path

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:59:06 +0200
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello world,
> 
> as you may have noticed Fedora is about to change it's update policy.
> New updates get tested more carefully to avoid the breakage we
> sometimes had in the past. You can read all about the new update
> policy at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria
> 
> For the new update policy we need to define a "critical path" for each
> desktop environment. This is a set of packages that is considered as
> important for the desktop and therefore get more testing. For more
> info on the critical path, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages and
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal
> 
> My suggestion for Xfce is to use the "mandatory" packages of the
> current xfce-desktop group. ATM these are
> 
> desktop-backgrounds-compat
>       * libxfce4menu
>       * libxfce4util
>       * libxfcegui4
>       * Thunar
>       * xfce-utils
>       * xfce4-panel
>       * xfce4-session
>       * xfce4-settings
>       * xfconf
>       * xfdesktop
>       * xfwm4
> 
> In comps this will boil down to 
>       * xfce-utils
>       * xfce4-session
>       * xfce4-settings
> because dependencies get pulled in automatically.
> 
> Is everybody fine with this set or should there be more packages in
> the group, e.g. all Xfce "Core" packages (in contrast to the Xfce
> Goodies)?

I think this looks good... at least for a start. We can always adjust
it if we see problems happening with other components that our users
depend on. 

kevin
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