Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (124 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 15:48 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le lundi 26 janvier 2009, à 15:26 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> > I'll continue at some point this week, but people should feel free to
> > finish the work ;-)
>
> I forgot to mention -- a few packages fail to build. For some, it's only
> because it's an old version (gnome-utils, eg). For others, it's only a
> directory ownership issue (most probably on /usr/share/gnome/help that
> is owned by libgnome).
>
> For this second issue, I was wondering what to do. I'm not really happy
> with having all packages owning the same directory, but it's bad to
> require libgnome too.
>
> So maybe we should create a filesystem-gnome package that contain some
> common directories? There are quite some directories that could be
> there:
>
> /usr/share/gnome
> /usr/share/gnome/help
> /usr/share/gnome/autostart
> /usr/share/omf
> /usr/share/gtk-doc
> /usr/share/icons/HighContrastLargePrint
>
> I'm sure there are others...
>
> Any opinion on this? And also, how would we have this package
> automatically installed? I wouldn't want to have all packages require it
> :/

Wouldn't it be enough to have gtk2 or glib2 depend on this new package
(filesystem-gnome?). Or do we have any packages in need of those
directories that also wouldn't need gtk2/glib2?

Cheers,
Magnus


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