Re: control center plans, etc.

[Dick Porter <dick acm org>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:08:29PM +0100, Stephen Browne wrote:
> 
> > - Implemented location management, some capplets are using the location
> > manager already and it is very nice. 
> 
> I agree this is nice functionality, my concern is that the archiver used to 
> accomplish this is currently part of the Ximian-Setup-Tools and I don't know
> about other distributors but I am fairly certain that SUN has no intention of
> delivering or supporting XST.
> 
> Making the Control Center depend on XST is not a really nice idea.
> I know the archiver stuff is conditionally compiled at the minute so that
> this dependancy doesn't truely exist, but people without XST are going to
> loose out on the location management feature.

Isn't that a given? You don't use package A, so you lose out on package A's
features.

- Dick