Re: Upload of GNOME 2.8 to unstable
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:17:10 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:21:20AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> *nod*. For -gtk-gnome readers, this involves a few things for meta-gnome2.
Why don't you have a 'meta-gnome2.6' and a 'meta-gnome2.8' with
meta-gnome2 itself depending on meta-gnome2.6 (similar to gcc-default)
>
> - even if they are now part of the official Desktop release, we're not
> going to add evolution, vino, gnome-system-tools and the other new
> modules, to avoid filling up the CD as much as possible.
> - due to Sarge's official kernel being 2.4.x, we'll keep magicdev as the
> default device mounting program for now, despite it's clearly inferior
> to gnome-volume-manager. g-v-m depends on hal/dbus/udev, and would also
> make optimal GNOME install depend on kernel 2.6.
>
> We'll document these somewhere, so people can get the missing stuff
> installed easily.
Likewise a meta-gnome2.8 could depend/recommend or (make use of)
enhances (w.r.t kernel-image-2.6)
Cheers,
Anand
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