From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 21:24:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7B937B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D1F43E65 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6V4OPuF011801; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:24:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g6V4OP0w011798; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:24:25 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:24:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Ken Wills Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Desktop Meta-ports Re: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? In-Reply-To: <20020730225336.B78265@zaptillion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Ken Wills wrote: [heavily trimmed] > On the flip side, the instant-workstation port shouldn't try to > please everyone - that's what 'cd /usr/ports; make install' is for > :-) . This would be way too big. Actually, what we need are three "desktop meta-ports" like this: Web User Pretty X environment, browsers (flash, etc), email. All in X. Power User All of the above plus apps (office stuff: Open/Star Office, other user apps). Developer All of the above, plus editors, compilers, network tools and monitors, CLI email and news readers also. As Greg mentioned, "instant" is maybe not the right word to use. 8-) Any more than three of these would probably be too confusing. Another option would be for a port to have a user interface like the one in Ghostscript: let the user choose whether they want pine or mutt, tin or slrn (or none). -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message