On Tuesday 26 February 2008 17:18:23 Stanislav Brabec wrote:
radmanic@novell.com wrote:
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 15:17:08
- Branding packages must be mutually exclusive, but with the exception of the default "upstream" package. This should make sure that you cannot easily co-brand packages by adding your branding package to an existing one. This should prevent unauthorized co-branding
This proposal makes them mutually exclusive without exception. If you want custom branding, you have to uninstall "upstream" package. They are conflicting, as they are installing files to the same places.
Doing this differently would require either patching of sources (to look for each image at two locations) or symlinking in style of update-alternatives (and increasing of installed size without easy use of actually inactive brandings).
Think for instance of a mid-size company with 500 desktops. The IT department provides a customized Linux Installation. All they want is to exchange the bootscreen-picture and the Firefox-bookmarks, everything else they want "upstream". In this situation it would be helpful if they could start on top of upstream. But I'd agree that this is more a convenience issue. regards -- Milisav Radmanic Engineering Manager Server Technologies SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuernberg tel: +49 911 74053 0 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org