bluetooth in default desktop install?

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Mon Aug 28 16:29:49 UTC 2006


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I see that gnome-bluetooth is now an optional package in the gnome
> installer group, and things like nautilus-sendto-bluetooth isn't
> included at all right now.
> 
> I think a lot of machines (laptops) these days ship with Bluetooth
> support though, and a lot of people have mobile phones with Bluetooth
> support. Maybe we should install packages like this by default so that
> you can send a file to your phone in an out of the box FC6 install.
> 
> Opinions?

We're dealing with 372 Kb of packages here, so I think this is 
definitely worth installing by default. I also have a bluetooth phone, 
so this is not just reserved to laptop users.

  gnome-bluetooth         i386      0.7.0-10.1  development     236 k
  gnome-bluetooth-libs    i386      0.7.0-10.1  development      65 k
  libbtctl                i386      0.6.0-9.1   development      45 k
  openobex                i386      1.3-3.1     development      21 k
  nautilus-sendto-bluetooth  i386   0.7-4.fc6   development     8.2 k




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