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

[Simon Huggins]

'ello Riccardo

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 01:47:33PM +0200, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2006 23:21:33 +0100 Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> wrote:
> > 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. 

Yes, you're absolutely right; I'll do so now.

> > 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.

You can remove xfce4 from 4.2.x too and we'd love testers of 4.4beta1
but until the packages are in sid then it's a little hard to tests.

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