On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 19:06 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Seth Nickell <snickell@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > 3) The default packages in the package sets (in the comps file) may not > > include any applications that are functional duplicates. In other words, > > if the user clicks all the package sets in the installer (other than > > everything), they should not end up with two web browsers or two > > spreadsheets in the menus. To give a hypothetical example, lets say we > > shipped Gnumeric as one of the default apps in the "Office" package set. > > In this case OpenOffice.org Calc should not show up in the menus, even > > if the openoffice.org package is installed (presuming we install the > > rest of openoffice by default). One way to address this would be to > > include a separate "openoffice.org-calc" package that simply installs > > a .desktop file. > > I understand trying to make things simpler, but I also have a problem > with this. I will sometimes intentionally install multiple things (like > OOo and Gnumeric), with the intention of checking them both out to see > which one I like (or does what I want) better. I install both from the > regular install menu in anaconda; with your rule above, I wouldn't end > up with both in the desktop menus that way. You would if you install OOo and Gnumeric and OOo Calc. This isn't a restriction on installing individual packages, or even packages inside a package set, just packages that get turned on by default when you enable a package set. -Seth
