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Re: Upload of GNOME 2.8 to unstable



hoi :)

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > - 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.
> 
> Notice that on powerpc, the official kernel is 2.6. Would it be possible to
> have it depends on g-v-m/udev on powerpc, and magicdev on the rest of it ? 

but depending on magicdev rules out g-v-m for those who choose to run
an 2.6 kernel on other arches anyway.

So I think that the current way of depending on magicdev | g-v-m is the
best solution for the time being.

-- 
Martin Waitz

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