Re: Here's what happened to xfwm4

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > John Summerfield wrote:
> > >
> > > > How ought I have found xfce-desktop? "yum grouplist" gives me XFCE, 
> > > > but not xfce-desktop and that leaves me wondering whether there are 
> > > > other groups I don't see. Something for icewm or fcwm for example.
> > >
> > > I answered this just a week or so back in here.  xfce-desktop is just 
> > > an alias for "XFCE" as specified in comps.xml file.
> > >
> > > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/comps/comps-f9.xml.in?view=markup
> >
> >
> > Nobody should be expect to go there and read that stuff. If those 
> > names in the <id>..</id> tags are installable, they should also be 
> > reportable.
>
> They are. Some of them just have hidden aliases which nobody needs to 
> care. If you don't know, you would just use what is visible which is
>
> # yum groupinstall "XFCE"
>
> # yum grouplist hidden as Seth Vidal indicated if you really want to know.
>
> > What would Aunty Indira say if Nephew told her to read that?
>
> That's just silly. If something has a hidden alias in a command line, 
> Aunty Indira wouldn't even care.

I asked how I might have found xfce-desktop by myself (a much better 
name I might add) and you said to read that.

As I've already noted, "hidden" does not show it, it's not a hidden 
package so far as I could see, but identified by different tags.



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John

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