Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 16:44 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
>> Will this work?
>
> It depends on some points:
> - you should give some more background information about the topics -
>   I'll insert some questions regarding this below.

I don't know everything and would like to have expert advice ;-)

> - you should mail some days earlier the next time ;-))

Will try to ;-)


>
>> The planned topics for tomorrow's meeting are:
>>
>> * D-Bus 0.91 and PolicyKit/resmgr
>>
>>   We just switched to D-Bus 0.91 and the question arises whether to
>>   continue to use resmgr or switch to PolicyKit.
>
> What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

That's what we try to figure out in the meeting.

>> * Move to GNOME 2.16
>>
>>   The packagers have started already with the first packages, we want
>>   to discuss the timeframe for the move and the move of GNOME to /usr
>>   (from /opt/gnome).
>
> Hmm, what's the reason for this?

Requests by e.g. lsb.

> BTW: Will KDE be moved also?

With the next major KDE update: Yes, we will.

>> * SuSEconfig removal
>>
>>   SuSEconfig is currently run after each package installation by YaST
>>   and is a huge bottleneck.  Some scripts have already been removed
>>   and we have to discuss how to move on.
>
> What's the replacement for config files that are _generated_ by 
> SuSEconfig? (as in: including /etc/sysconfig/foo is impossible for the 
> respective application)  -> You won't be able to do this in rpm 
> postinstall scripts or alike ;-)

We have to figure this out for each script.  It might be done in the
postinstall of the packages that need it - but only there.  Not for
unrelated stuff.

> [...]

Andreas
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