From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 22:06:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D801065670 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-sj.cisco.com (firestar.cisco.com [171.68.227.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2D18FC25 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-sj.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m59M6L022586; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.129] (jclarke-vpn.cisco.com [172.18.254.237]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m59M5lu20710; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:05:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <484DA93B.70104@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:05:47 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sam Fourman Jr." References: <1212956773.92272.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080609121047.467267lugai59y0w@webmail.leidinger.net> <11167f520806091351s7f6e520bjbbe9622f9ea3a9ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11167f520806091351s7f6e520bjbbe9622f9ea3a9ae@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users , Alexander Leidinger , Michael Johnson , Kris Moore Subject: Re: Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:06:46 -0000 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I am all for the Idea of considering PC-BSD FreeBSD's Officially > supported Desktop. > > I assume that is what we are aiming for here. one thing I am a little > confused about though. We're aiming for giving PC-BSD users a choice of desktop (at least that's what my PBI aims to do). We're not trying to change PC-BSD, just leverage what they have already created for people who would like a GNOME desktop. > > Kris more mentioned to me once that, one of the reasons why portupgrade > -ar would not work well on PC-BSD is because, hal was patched. I am not > sure of the details. but could we pull this patch back into FreeBSD , so > that portupgrade -ar would not mess up PC-BSD? PC-BSD uses the ports collection at this point. The patch to which he referred was pulled into the official hal port. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome