Re: Gnome2 for woody
Le Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:33:31PM -0400, Colin Walters écrivait:
> > Because it's unnecessary work, and because it's an unneeded pain for most
> > applications.
> >
> > People who choose Gnome 1.4 won't be happy when Gnumeric will be
> > compiled with Gnome 2 libs ... and so on.
>
> Eh? We can just keep the "2" suffix on packages, and there will be no
> conflict. gnumeric for GNOME 2 would be packaged as "gnumeric2", etc.
Sure we could, but really consider the numbers :
$ apt-cache showpkg libgnome32 | grep-dctrl -s "Reverse Depends" -e "" | wc -l
441
Do you really think that it's reasonable to keep apps both for Gnome2
and Gnome 1.4 ?
And of course, once the transition is done, it would be a pain to rename
the package and to make the user switch from one set of packages to the
other one. And if we don't change the name we'll keep the 2 suffix for
years while the first set would have disappeared.
> The only legitimate reason I can see to keep GNOME 2 in experimental is
> so we can have our transition scripts tested against all the users
> running unstable when we do the mass-movement from experimental to
> unstable.
We'll never be able to test those scripts in a automated way. Packages'
scripts are not allowed to modify user configuration files in $HOME. We
can provide the scripts but we must ask our users to launch them.
Eventually through a debconf question but really, adding a debconf
interaction to all Gnome packages just because of that ...
You should really consider that Gnome2 is a new desktop and that you
should take the time to configure it. An helper script may be provided
somewhere in /usr/share/doc/ for quickstart in that configuration but
we'll never have a configuration script that will handle all Gnome
applications ...
> I personally though am frustrated with experimental, because it's not
> autobuilt.
I don't like it in experimental either.
Cheers,
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