Re: rawhide report: 20050923 changes

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On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:55 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 9/23/05, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Our plan is to move xscreensaver to extras, but allow gnome-screensaver
> > and xscreensaver to coexist. We also want to allow to install
> > gnome-screensaver + xscreensaver-extras, without xscreensaver-base.
> >
> > Ray and I figured that we should do the following:
> >
> > - Remove the xscreensaver-base dependency from xscreensaver-extras (to
> >   allow xscreensaver-extras to be installed without -base)
> > - Remove the xscreensaver provides from gnome-screensaver (to allow
> >   gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver to coexist)
> >
> > The second point means that people who upgrade will keep the installed
> > xscreensaver around, but we think that is not too bad. We just need to
> > figure out how to show only one "Screensaver" preferences menu item.
> 
> Forgetting about the extra complication of having two prefence menu
> entries for now.. and just concentrating on the more low level
> packaging issues....
> 
> control-center is going to have to drop the requirement on xscreensaver...
> or  xscreensaver-base is going to have to drop the obsoletes on xscreensaver...
> or both.

Oh, I wasn't aware of the xscreensaver requirement in control-center.
Ray said nothing depends on xscreensaver...
Yes, that needs to go.

> That obsoletes in xscreensaver-base is a problem as long as anything
> is trying to provide/require xscreensaver.

Right.

Matthias

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