Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. My understanding of the anaconda upgrade process is that it installed any missing packages from an installed group (such as gnome-desktop), but I may be misinformed there. Peter -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
