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

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

On Fri, 5 May 2006 23:21:33 +0100 Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> wrote:

> Hiya Riccardo,

Hi Simon,

> 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.

Great news, the package description of xfce4 should be updated so. 

> 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.

Ok, i'll take a look at 4.4beta1 packages.

thanks,
riccardo