[Fedora-packaging] gnome-screensaver packaging problem
Ricardo Veguilla González
veguilla at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 21:20:09 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Its not clear to me whether or not gnome-screensaver is actually
> mutually exclusive with xscreensaver. It might be more like
> mozilla/firefox like relationship. with the xscreensaver-extras are
> "plugins" that both can use.
>
No, they aren't mutually exclusive.
> If there are no explict file conflicts users might very well be able
> to have both installed...or replace one with the other for similar
> functionality. Certaintly users will not be able to run both
> xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver at the same time..but I don't think
> that sort of thing is a blocker from extras. I haven't actually tried
> to mock up his specfile yet to see if there are file conflicts though.
No file conflicts.
> If the intent is to have installation of gnome-screensaver to always
> remove xscreensaver-base automatically..then no..thats not extras
> appropriate.
That's not my intend, but until the xscreensaver requirement in the
control-center rpm is changed, I don't see another way installing
both at the same time.
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Ricardo Veguilla González <veguilla at gmail.com>
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