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Re: [LUG] Repository contents.

 

jon.davey2@xxxxxxxxxx writes: 

> 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' file right??.
> Cheers, Jon Davey.
 


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