Hey,

gnome-volume-manager is no longer in the default install since the
functionality it provides has been replaced by Nautilus as of Fedora 9.
As such I'm orphaning it.

This has been a public service announcement.

David


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David Zeuthen (davidz@redhat.com) said:
> gnome-volume-manager is no longer in the default install since the
> functionality it provides has been replaced by Nautilus as of Fedora 9.
> As such I'm orphaning it.
>
> This has been a public service announcement.

Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?

Bill

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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (davidz@redhat.com) said:
> > gnome-volume-manager is no longer in the default install since the
> > functionality it provides has been replaced by Nautilus as of Fedora 9.
> > As such I'm orphaning it.
> >
> > This has been a public service announcement.
>
> Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?

We don't think it serves a useful purpose, but it doesn't do any harm.
So, if people want to keep using it, there is nothing wrong with taking
over the maintainership of the package. Otherwise, it'll just silently
vanish in F11.

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?

It is up to fedora packagers to decide to maintain it or not.

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Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:
> > Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?
>
> It is up to fedora packagers to decide to maintain it or not.

To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
any more.

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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:


Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:

Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?


It is up to fedora packagers to decide to maintain it or not.


To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
any more.


Does anything obsolete gnome-volume-manager or will people just have crap
dangling around in their rpmdbs?


-sv

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:
> > > Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?
> >
> > It is up to fedora packagers to decide to maintain it or not.
>
> To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
> any more.

You should not, they should be orphaned.

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 05:19:44PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:
>>>> Does it actually serve a purpose? Should it just be removed?
>>>
>>> It is up to fedora packagers to decide to maintain it or not.
>>
>> To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
>> any more.
>
> Does anything obsolete gnome-volume-manager or will people just have crap
> dangling around in their rpmdbs?

Maybe somebody will take it. Obsoletes should only be added if nobody
wants to take the package.

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Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:
> > To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
> > any more.
>
> You should not, they should be orphaned.

If a package's entire function has been subsumed by another package, there's
no point in going through an orphan cycle.

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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:


Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:

To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
any more.


You should not, they should be orphaned.


If a package's entire function has been subsumed by another package, there's
no point in going through an orphan cycle.


but it should be obsoleted by _something_.

-sv

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