gnome-vfs not in Rawhide?

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Thu Apr 7 15:12:11 UTC 2005


On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:27:08 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> So let's get this straight.. not only do you want gtk1 as part of
> Core... you want it installed by default as part of the Desktop
> install?   

Yes. Having things work out of the box is the whole point, isn't it?

> fc3 gtk+-1.x is part
> of the "compat-arch-support"  group, and I'm pretty sure that stuff is
> not part of a default Desktop.  And I am unaware of any default
> application that sucks in gtk+-1.x into a desktop install as a
> requirement, even gnucash and xmms are optional applications.

I don't know. I never explicitly installed it yet it's here, on the other
hand I upgraded from a previous FC2 install. XMMS is pretty common though.

> So assuming in fc3 doesn't install gtk+ by default... the change to
> extras doesn't effectively change the level of difficulty to get the
> package.  In fc3 you still have to do something unixy to get the
> package installed.  

Well that's even worse!

thanks -mike





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