Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:59:36 +0100 From: "Piero" <piero@poprostu.pl> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Restructuring GNOME meta-ports Message-ID: <20040107005936.M26949@poprostu.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040106015049.GM27144@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <1073346203.765.210.camel@gyros> <20040106015049.GM27144@toxic.magnesium.net>
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:50:49 -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote > >> (01.05.2004 @ 1843 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 1.9K: << > > I was thinking maybe we should borrow something from garnome seeing as > > since they've borrowed practically everything from us already ; -) (the > > ports system, that is). What if we restructured the GNOME meta-ports to > > look something like this: > > > > x11/gnome2 (leave it the way it is) > > x11/gnome2-lite (leave it the way it is) > [...] > > > > Thoughts? > > I'd like to consider some different organizations. > > I'd like to see stuff broken down in ways similar to how > the ports tree does it. I think that all mail and news > apps, for example, should be kept together, and should be > under a productivity heading that includes the components > listed above for gnome2-office, as well as things like > gimp and maybe bluefish. > I'm not sure I got your idea the right way, it is 2 pm right now here. But I don't think such grouping of similar apps can be useful to the users. It might be good for categorizing ports, but do you ever install the whole mail or news directory? I don't think so. I would rather choose the best or the most popular app for these new meta ports instead of putting a couple of competing ports. I do like evo as a contact manager and calendar client, but I much prefer sylpheed as a MUA, but this was my choice to have them both, but would I install Balsa also having the others? Of course, people should be aware that those are in no way "suggested" or "official" choices nor for GNOME or GNOME@FreeBSD, and they can tweak their packages as they are able to dive into the ports tree. Maybe with pkg-descr? -- Piero piero@poprostu.pl
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