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Summary: Review Request: kdegames: K Desktop Environment - Games
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194374
------- Additional Comments From hugo@devin.com.br 2006-06-19 22:08 EST ------- (In reply to comment #10)
I see no shortcoming to the splitting, except maybe that if the default install brings the meta-package "kdegames", and I want to remove kdegames-kmines later, yum will tell me that it needs to remove kdegames-kmines and kdegames. This could scare the user.
Well, kdegames is maybe not the best example here, but I know I was kind of scared when I tried to remove a component of GNOME and yum told me it needed to remove "gnome-desktop" with it.
Do you know some resolution for this? Personally I don't think this is a big issue, but I think you can be right. I thought about it and don't get any good solution...
BTW I think koffice uses the same approach for now. Maybe Oo.org too. Many other distributions uses that way too. If the user knows that there exists packages, he/she should know that the base package is only a meta-package. This can be described in the Description field too.
Apart from that, it clearly has advantages, but we need to make really sure that the packages are truly independant and work when the others are not installed.
I already took care of this, they work just fine. I tested every single game here, but another person doing this to confirm could be very helpful. I completely agree with "we need to make really sure" on packages. We have to provide high-quality packages to our users ;) And on this point, IMO, Fedora Extras is rocking. Keep it up!
Thanks for the feedback.