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Re: GNOME-2 transition: necessary?



On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:27, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >> "BN" == Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:17, Christian Marillat wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> If I want to package two sawfishs, then I need to maintains two
> >> rep-gtk versions (0.15 and 0.16), who conflicts each other because
> >> sawfish always find the 0.15 version and the build for sawfish 2 will
> >> fail. Then for building sawfish for gtk 1.2 I need to remove sawfish 2.0
> >> and rep-gtk 0.15 package and vice versa, not really realistic.
> 
> > If it is so, the better option would have been to upload sawfish with a
> > different package name, and orphan the old sawfish.
> 
> Then people can't upgrade from sawfish to the new sawfish name.

But when they're going to switch from gnome1 to gnome2 they'd probably
use some task package, which would take care of that. And if they
specifically want sawfish2, they can install it, removing the old
sawfish.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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