Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:22:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: cjuniet@entreview.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC on a Desktop Applications chapter for the handbook Message-ID: <200208282022.NAA15383@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020828185720.GC8848@hades.hell.gr> (message from Giorgos Keramidas on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:57:20 %2B0300)
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Just a couple cents. There are english problems, but let's deal with that after some discussion of content. For the % make install-user command required by openoffice (which I am glad you told me about) needs to be made in the ports directory right? If so, then you should have a % cd ....... too. The link to the abacus website and that bit about the palm pilot seems like a gratuitous plug. Are gratuitous plugs ok? I like that you did not leave out the lightweights browsers like w3m and so on. Comments on whether or not a package will demand substantial resources to build from ports versus pkg_add are nice too. In fact, I wonder if you might not turn that into an organizing principle. AbiWord is a pretty lightweight app for what it does, while KWord is light or heavy depending on if you have KDE already or not, and openoffice is, right now, a horrendous beast that only the foolhearty would build from ports. You also did this for the pdf viewing with xpdf and Acrobat, though I am curious as to why not gv (I just don't know anything about xpdf). The pkg_add, cd, make install lines are all pretty boring to read. I mean, yeah there are subtleties, here and there, but I wonder this sort of info is not better captured by a table with cols like --|package name|---|ports directory|---|post-install notes|---|major deps|---|size|--- (OK, I slipped in major dependencies and size here to perhaps give someone a clue as to how light or heavy the package is, or maybe "heavy(light with KDE)"). Finally, there is the question as to whether you should make reference at all to ports/misc/instant-workstation. You might tell someone that once they decide what they like, they might consider making an instant-workstation meta-port out of it (or at least the light parts) using instant-workstation as a template. OK, this was longer than I expected. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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