Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:05:47 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops Message-ID: <484DA93B.70104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <11167f520806091351s7f6e520bjbbe9622f9ea3a9ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <1212956773.92272.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <b2203fed0806081935s59b2cd8t5865f20e8ee6d3f4@mail.gmail.com> <20080609121047.467267lugai59y0w@webmail.leidinger.net> <11167f520806091351s7f6e520bjbbe9622f9ea3a9ae@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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