Date: 26 Nov 2002 13:16:29 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: bmah@FreeBSD.org Cc: re@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Making GNOME 2 the default for 5.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <1038334589.323.21.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <200211261731.gAQHVMPe071314@intruder.bmah.org> References: <1037907947.309.49.camel@gyros> <200211221637.gAMGb2hE024266@intruder.bmah.org> <1037985350.326.12.camel@gyros> <200211261731.gAQHVMPe071314@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:31, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> sysinstall is harder. On, say, a 4.7 system, sysinstall has two=20
> relevant items in the desktop config menu:
>=20
> GNOME + Sawfish
> (Installs gnome and sawfish-gnome)
> GNOME + Enlightenment
> (Installs gnomecore and enlightenment)
This should probably be changed to GNOME and GNOME + Enlightenment.=20
Both would install GNOME (x11/gnome), but the latter would also install
x11-wm/enlightenment.
>=20
> I think that the sawfish-gnome install above is redundant, because=20
> sawfish-gnome is contained in the gnome meta-package, but you get the=20
> idea. We should maybe fix this for 4.8.
>=20
> Anyways, I imagine what you'd like for 5.0 is something like this:
>=20
> GNOME 2 + Sawfish
> (Installs gnome2, which includes sawfish2-gnome)
> GNOME 2 + Enlightenment
> (Installs "something" and enlightenment)
>=20
> The trouble is that I'm not sure what "something" is. I thought at=20
> first it would be analogous to gnomecore for GNOME 2, but I couldn't=20
> figure out what that would be. Should it be gnome2? Or should there=20
> be only one entry for GNOME 2 (which would give the users Sawfish and=20
> Metacity)?
Yes, one entry for GNOME 2 that installs x11/gnome2. This will give the
user the choice of either sawfish2 or metacity. I would call this entry
simply GNOME 2.
>=20
> The applicable code, BTW, is in src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/
> {config,menus}.c. I haven't made any changes so far to either file.
>=20
> Testing this is complicated by the fact that at the moment, we don't
> have a package build set on bento that contains the gnome2 meta-package,
> although I expect that to change in a day or two.
I think I've fixed all the build errors. I'm keeping a close eye on the
logs, though. Thanks.
Joe
>=20
> Bruce.
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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