On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:34 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 01/25/2011 12:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 09:11 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> > >>> I've added the dependency to gnome-panel. That should achieve the same > >>> for gnome users on upgrade, without affecting other spins. > >> But it doesn't make any sense. gnome-panel does *not* require > >> gnome-shell. We really shouldn't just go around abusing dependencies to > >> make upgrades 'work', even if it is convenient. > > > > I think users upgrading from a previous release can continue to get the > > fallback mode unless they do a group installation or try to install > > GNOME Shell specifically. > > A upgrade needn't pull in GNOME Shell. > > No users upgrading should not get a degraded user experience (that is > what the fallback supposed to be), > to save a few MB of disk space for some users that care about every > single MB on their hard drive. I think we should ensure the supported upgrade methods - installer upgrade, preupgrade - do the right thing somehow, but yum doesn't have to. If there isn't a mechanism to deal with this situation via anaconda, well, it seems like a deficiency in our upgrade process which should be remedied, not something to work around by abusing package dependencies. If we really have to work around it, though, there must be a better workaround than making up dependencies for gnome-shell; I don't recall who suggested it, but something involving a meta-package should work more elegantly. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
