Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-19 Thread Stefan Haller
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 22:22:55 Daniel Leidert wrote: a) The usual way is, that such a desktop-dependent package will depend and pull in the required environment (compare it to e.g. a frontend of a program for GTK vs QT - we have several examples in the repository). So the user will see,

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 08.06.2010, 20:17 +0200 schrieb Stefan Haller: On Monday 07 June 2010 17:28:19 Daniel Leidert wrote: I would expect a simple third solution: desktopnova depends on the modules with equal version the modules don't depend on desktopnova at all Why do they depend on

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-09, Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net wrote: b) Let both modules packages provide desktopnova-module and conflict with each other. Then let desktopnova depend on desktopnova-module. So the user will have to choose the module package to install. IMO this is a common

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-08 Thread Stefan Haller
On Monday 07 June 2010 17:28:19 Daniel Leidert wrote: I would expect a simple third solution: desktopnova depends on the modules with equal version the modules don't depend on desktopnova at all Why do they depend on desktopnova atm? They don't contain anything that can be run by a user

desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-07 Thread Stefan Haller
Hello mentors, I’m the maintainer of the desktopnova package[1]. At the moment I’m trying to fix bug #583756[2]. The binary packages have circular dependencies. Currently there are four binary packages: * desktopnova * desktopnova-module-gnome * desktopnova-module-xfce * desktopnova-tray

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-07 Thread Daniel Leidert
Stefan Haller wrote: I’m the maintainer of the desktopnova package[1]. At the moment I’m trying to fix bug #583756[2]. The binary packages have circular dependencies. Currently there are four binary packages: * desktopnova * desktopnova-module-gnome * desktopnova-module-xfce *

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-07 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, On 07/06/10 17:08, Stefan Haller wrote: As far as I can see, there are currently two ways to avoid circular dependencies: [...] (2) Rename the binary packages to: * desktopnova-gnome * desktopnova-xfce * desktopnova-common [...] Solution #2 is much better,