Dropping xfce-utils for 4.10

Raphael Groner raphgro at web.de
Sun Jul 10 12:55:55 CEST 2011


Hi,

"utils" is always a bad idea for a package name. Experiences show that
all stuff will get there, of which you don't know to find a better
place.

Good work with code review! Keep that going on :)

Just my 2 cents.

R.



Am Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:00:02 +0200
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> FYI,
> 
> Today I've merged the appfinder branch in to master. It's not finished
> yet, but already as functional as the old appfinder + xfrun4.
> 
> With this merge, it is also the start of dropping xfce-utils
> (https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/xfce-utils) and move the
> useful parts of this module into other modules.
> For that I've created branches in libxfce4ui and xfce4-session. What
> remains is moving some scripts into xfce4-docs.
> 
> When the help things are also moved, I'll merge the various branches
> in master, but this will lead into various package conflicts. To avoid
> this, you should drop xfce-utils first and then update xfce4-session
> and libxfce4ui.
> 
> Nick
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