On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:23 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
On 05.10.2014 19:57, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
Hi! The presence of the linux32 package (installed by default on x86_64) causes issues including not behaving well with elements of the GNOME desktop [bnc#841070], but also more invasive ones such as [bnc#435538]. I request the consideration of dropping the package altogether from Factory if there is no reasonable use case which justifies otherwise. If this cannot be done because people do use this package, might I suggest removing it from the default patterns* and hiding the .desktop menu item from the applications menu (as promised in bnc#408320, then somehow reverted), in the least?
Thank you.
* It is recommended by the pattern 'enhanced_base' at present. I will make the sr for the change if this is the route we take.
I don't think enhanced_base actually wants to recommend xterm - this is most likely an old artefact. Naming this package linux32 is very misleading as it's actually xterm32 :)
But you need to fix the GNOME bug anyway as dropping this recommend won't remove the package from all existant openSUSE installations.
The bug is actually no bug; just the user was tipped off by so many
different terminals installed by default; and failed to ultimately find
gnome-terminal amongst the list (which is in the Utilities subfolder,
and the others are not).
The aim is to clean up the overview on 'new' installs. As such, removing
it from the base_enhanced pattern is already sufficient.
Dropping the linux32 package (which is in fact nothing but a collection
of icons and a .desktop file) is the 2nd option; whereas we see
need/reason for existence for 'linux32, the script', we fail to see need
for 'linux32, the launcher in the menu'. But if somebody DOES use it, we
also do not want to disrupt their workflows; so leaving it installable,
but not default installed IS acceptable to us.
Dominique
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