Bug 62365 – Gnome-core should not require sawfish, only a window manager

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Bug 62365 - Gnome-core should not require sawfish, only a window manager

Summary:	Gnome-core should not require sawfish, only a window manager

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gnome-core (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	skipjack-beta1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2002-03-30 06:22 EST by W. Michael Petullo
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:41 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Last Closed:	2002-03-30 06:22:20 EST
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Description W. Michael Petullo 2002-03-30 06:22:16 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020311

Description of problem:
Gnome-core should not require sawfish, as GNOME will work fine with other window
managers.  Instead, gnome-core should require a meta-package, window manager,
which could be provided by sawfish, enlightenment, fvwm2, etc.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  rpm -q --requires gnome-core
2.  Notice that sawfish is listed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-31 15:26:15 EST

The Requires: is needed so that people upgrading from previous versions that
used Enlightenment instead will be given the option to migrate to Sawfish by
default. Other WMs work with GNOME but they are unsupported.

The only issue here is saving some disk space, that isn't as important as
pulling in Sawfish on upgrades.

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