Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 17:55 +1300, John Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:47 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > >  + gnome-screensaver: people want this. I'd say we should go with it
> > > and
> > > I believe it's the general consensus, but maybe some people think it's
> > > not ready yet?
> > 
> > Drop-in replacement for xscreensaver, but with a decent UI. I'm in.
> 
> Kind of.  On my Fedora Core 4 system, we have:
> 
> rpm -e xscreensaver-base xscreensaver-extras
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         xscreensaver is needed by (installed)
> control-center-2.12.2-1.1.fc4.nr.i386
>         xscreensaver-extras is needed by (installed)
> gnome-screensaver-0.0.24-1.1.fc4.nr.i386

Complain to whoever provided you those packages, because they don't come
from Fedora, FC4 didn't have gnome-screensaver. On a pre-FC5 machine:
$ rpm -q gnome-screensaver
gnome-screensaver-0.0.23-3
$ rpm -q xscreensaver
package xscreensaver is not installed

No need for xscreensaver.

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