Available today: ULB GNOME 2.8.0.2 This is a minor revision, not a full desktop upgrade. It includes netapplet, the seriously cool network switcher, as well as updated gnome-vfs2 and libgnome packages to use Firefox as the default browser, cos I've just fallen in love with it over the last few months - so it now depends upon SuSE's MozillaFirefox package (from the mozilla apt component) (Note: built for SuSE 9.1) -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms
James Ogley wrote:
Available today:
ULB GNOME 2.8.0.2 This is a minor revision, not a full desktop upgrade. It includes netapplet, the seriously cool network switcher, as well as updated gnome-vfs2 and libgnome packages to use Firefox as the default browser, cos I've just fallen in love with it over the last few months - so it now depends upon SuSE's MozillaFirefox package (from the mozilla apt component)
(Note: built for SuSE 9.1)
If I understand this well, this change has some consequent consequences in the dependencies' tree: smarty:/opt # rpm -e MozillaFirefox error: Failed dependencies: MozillaFirefox is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs2-2.8.3-100.SuSE.ulb.1 MozillaFirefox is needed by (installed) libgnome-2.8.0-100.SuSE.ulb.3 smarty:/opt # apt remove MozillaFirefox Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: Geramik MozillaFirefox MozillaThunderbird OpenOffice_org OpenOffice_org-en OpenOffice_org-en-help OpenOffice_org-fr QtPixmap freeciv gail gconf2 gimp gimp-cmyk gnome-keyring gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras gnome-vfs2 gstreamer-plugins gstreamer-plugins-internal gtk2 gtk2-engines gtkhtml2 kdeartwork3-xscreensaver libbonoboui libglade2 libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomecups libgnomeprint libgnomeprintui libgnomeui libgsf libgtkhtml librsvg libwmf mplayerplug-in openssh-askpass sane ulb-themes xsane xscreensaver 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 41 removed and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 537MB disk space will be freed. Patrick
If I understand this well, this change has some consequent consequences in the dependencies' tree:
And your point is? You want to remove a package and are astounded when APT is going to remove packages that depend on it? -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms
James Ogley wrote:
If I understand this well, this change has some consequent consequences in the dependencies' tree:
And your point is?
You want to remove a package and are astounded when APT is going to remove packages that depend on it?
Sorry James, I just noted your reply... The odd thing for me is that removing a program would remove things that have absolutely nothing to do with it. I think this comes from the fact that a library depends on an end user program. It's even stranger for me as I don't use Gnome but KDE. those gnome libs are just there because of dependencies, I presume. Isn't there any better / softer way to suggest that "dependency"? Regards, Patrick
The odd thing for me is that removing a program would remove things that have absolutely nothing to do with it. I think this comes from the fact that a library depends on an end user program. It's even stranger for me as I don't use Gnome but KDE. those gnome libs are just there because of dependencies, I presume.
Can't even remember what the discussion was about now ;) Could be that libgnome includes gconf schemas that set things like default browser so I'd set a dep to ensure that that browser is installed.
Isn't there any better / softer way to suggest that "dependency"?
Ain't gonna happen now, not building anything for 9.1 any more, I'm now running 9.3 Oh, and incidentally, won't be building a full GNOME install for 9.3 (well, might tackle 2.11/2.12 as it comes around towards the autumn) cos the GNOME install in 9.3 just rocks hard enough as it is, so I'm going back to filling in the gaps and providing updates. -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms
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