From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Dec 9 16:27:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from fep6.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A5A37B417; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.upton.net (d141-18-230.home.cgocable.net [24.141.18.230]) by fep6.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 395393B7E; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:27:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:27:45 -0500 From: Paul Murphy To: "David O'Brien" Cc: steve@FreeBSD.ORG, lioux@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME/KDE issue with disc1 Message-Id: <20011209192745.3597e2dc.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <20011209151048.B92399@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20011207181333.A97777@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209012306.A96687@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209183512.1467.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20011209142050.M46667@bsd.havk.org> <20011209151048.B92399@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5claws8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:10:48 -0800 "David O'Brien" wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:20:50PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > > Before we go off willy-nilly making changes to this script we > > need to take some sort of poll (like I did several releases > > ago) to get a sense for what people feel *must* be on the first > > disc. > > Maybe we need an exclude list also. I know an underlaying issue is > keeping dependencies together since we don't handle dependencies across > CD's. GNOME and KDE are two very popular desktops and thus their basic > bits certainly need to be on disc1. But due to the dependency issue, > "lesser" related ports make the disc1 cut-off -- things like the 7.2MB > (*compressed*) GNOME user documentation (which can easily be found on a > website). > Personally I would think disc1 should take a "lets get up and running" attitude, and contain a "simpler" desktop. KDE and GNOME are way too bloated for a _basic_ install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message