[Pkg-xfce-devel] Split xfce4 in two packages

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Fri May 5 22:21:33 UTC 2006


Hiya Riccardo,

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:14:54AM +0200, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> I'd like to know if is valuable / possible to split xfce4 in two packages: one
> with the gdm launch and setup scripts and the other the metapackage.
> The aim is to gain the ability to install slimmer xfce4, ie. without iconset,
> file manager, gtk-engine. What do you think?

Actually since 4.4beta1 I removed the last script in the xfce4 package.
Since 4.2 the desktop file for gdm was in xfce4-utils anyway.

You can safely uninstall the xfce4 package and just use whicever
components you want.

If you find some bits which actually require others then that's a bug
and should be filed as such.

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