Re: gnome-desktop comps group

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 19:23 +0100, pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there a reason that the gnome-desktop group contains both gnome-2
>> and gnome-3 desktops? Is it possible to split them out. Its not hard
>> to add both groups into a livecd kickstart file but it makes it much
>> harder to install one or the other. This becomes a problem on the OLPC
>> where we have between 1 and 4 Gb of storage and neither hardware
>> release (nor the upcoming ARM based devices I suspect) will run gnome
>> 3. I tried to install a plain "gnome desktop" from a F-14 alpha RC
>> onto my eeePC 901 which has a 4 Gb primary SSD and in F-13 had
>> Sugar/gnome and moblin on it with about 800Mb free and with F-14 I
>> can't even install the standard gnome desktop as the installer says
>> there's not enough space.
>>
>> Can we do a gnome-desktop for the current gnome2 desktop and a
>> gnome-desktop3 group for the gtk3/gnome3 components as it seems that
>> gnome2 is something that will be needed or used by a number of groups
>> for some time to come.
>
> Desktop team is in the middle of backing out all the GNOME 3 stuff for
> F14, it's been delayed to F15.

So the comps group will be split as well? I think this should remain
split even in F-15 as there's a lot of scenarios where you might want
one or the other.

Peter
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