Re: please remove kfreebsd-any from Architecture
On 02/06/14 19:56, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On 02/06/14 14:36, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> There's also gnome-session. gnome-core depends on gnome-session, which
>> in turn depends on gnome-shell.
>
> We'll need to make gnome-session Architecture: linux-any and remove it.
>
> And I wonder if we could adjust gnome-core's dependency from:
> gnome-session (>= 3.4),
>
> to:
> gnome-session (>= 3.4) [linux-any],
> gnome-session-bin (>= 3.4) [!linux-any],
>
> That keeps it installable as a metapackage of "the remaining core bits
> of GNOME not needing systemd" which could be useful information. The
> alternative is to make it linux-any and remove it.
>
> I think these are the last bits of the dependency chain,
> (gnome-shell + gdm3 < gnome-core < gnome-session), except for some
> arch:all packages which don't matter for testing migration.
May I ask what was broken on gdm3 and gnome-shell to have caused all these
removals? Note that there are efforts upstream to port GNOME to BSD. Was there a
bug or bugs in gnome-shell and/or gdm3 that led to this?
Sincerely,
Emilio
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