2017-07-05 17:00 GMT+02:00 Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>:
> Hi everyone, > > I just implemented https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1229 which > allows to indicate that a dependency will be installed by default but > does not have a string dependency link with the extension, meaning > that uninstalling it won't impact the backward dependencies (so they > are not really backward dependencies in that case :)). > > Now we need to decide what exactly is optional in Standard flavor. > > Here are some ideas: > > * application-help-center > * xwiki-platform-menu-ui > * xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki > * xwiki-platform-office-ui > * xwiki-platform-invitation-ui > * xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui > * xwiki-platform-linkchecker-ui > * xwiki-platform-sandbox > * xwiki-platform-sharepage-ui > * xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-tour > * application-templates-ui > These should be optional too: * xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-bootswatch - Flamingo Theme Applications comes with 4 theme by default, all others are not mandatory * xwiki-platform-help-ui - XWiki could work without help section * xwiki-platform-user-directory-ui - XWiki could be used without the User Directory * xwiki-platform-annotation-ui - XWiki could work without annotation * xwiki-platform-tag-ui - XWiki could work without annotation * xwiki-platform-watchlist-ui - We could live without watchlist * xwiki-platform-scheduler-ui - Same * xwiki-platform-notifications-ui - Same Maybe: * xwiki-platform-panels-ui - but I wonder how the administration app handle its absence Note that xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui is a dependency for a lot of apps, but I agree it could be seen as optional from the flavor point of view. > I did not actually tried to uninstall those so it's possible it's not > a good idea to uninstall some of them right now (hardcoded use > somewhere maybe). > > WDYT ? > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > For the rest, either we should permit or not to force the uninstall/install of dependencies is an other topic (either with EM or Extension Tweaker - I'm in favor of this for reasons explained by Edy, but it's an advanced case). I think we could rely on what the app's developer has marked as mandatory/optional in most of the case and that system is the safest. Thanks, -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project
