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Re: [LUG] Repository contents.

 

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Steven Coté <steven.cote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Synaptic will tell you all the packages that are installed, and you 
may
> > > find that a rather large proportion of them are "libraries" and as 
such
> > > have no need for menu entries.
> >
> > ...yeah I thought so but this was a P2P program that I installed and 
I
> fully
> > expected there to be an entry in the menu....
>
> With software packaged by Ubuntu, pretty much every gui application should
> have a menu entry. In fact, if you've installed a p2p app and there isn't 
a
> launcher in the menu, it sounds like it might be a bug. If that's the case,
> then it may be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu.
>

Dont forget that also one "application" may be split up in to multiple
packages eg secondlife secondlife-data secondlife-artwork, which
increases the number of packages but makes a very logical split for
the packagers, however, only one of those will have the menu file to
generate a menu entry.

As for the p2p package, it might be a CLI p2p package and there may
indeed be a GUI wrapper as another package or the core may just run
without the gui in which case its perfectly valid to have it as a
standalone pacakge with no menu entry

Robin

.....and this information should be in the 'readme' right?..
Jon Davey.

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