Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:50:49 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Restructuring GNOME meta-ports Message-ID: <20040106015049.GM27144@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <1073346203.765.210.camel@gyros> References: <1073346203.765.210.camel@gyros>
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>> (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) I would rather see an x11/gnome2-desktop port, and have x11/gnome2 be a metaport for the Whole Damn Thing. Or, well... I think there should be a meta meta port. Also, I think that gnome2-lite could also perhaps be made to be a meta meta port. > x11/gnome2-fifth-toe (Will consist of the following): > graphics/gthumb2 news/pan2 net/gnomeicu2 > x11-toolkits/gnome-themes-extras sysutils/gkrellm > graphics/gimp-devel www/bluefish-devel > net/tsclient graphics/sodipodi > security/seahorse ftp/gftp net/gossip > audio/rhythmbox net/straw > multimedia/totem mail/balsa2 > irc/xchat2 net/gaim www/galeon2 > audio/jamboree is this list adhering to GNOME's specifications? cuz if not, I'm going to put some suggestions below. > x11/gnome2-power-tools (New meta-port consisting of the following): > devel/gnomevfs-extras sysutils/gnome-pkgview > misc/quick-lounge-applet x11/gswitchit > editors/dasher net/netspeed_applet > editors/gedit-plugins deskutils/gdesklets > net/gnomenetwork net/gnomenetstatus what about epiphany-extensions? > devel/gnome2-hacker-tools (New meta-port consisting of the following): > editors/mlview devel/gnomecommon devel/glade2 > editors/ghex2 devel/regexxer editors/conglomerate > devel/anjuta-devel texproc/meld i do not like the names power-tools and hacker-tools. they are only descriptive to certain groups of people. > deskutils/gnome2-office (New meta port consisting of the following): > math/gnumeric2 deskutils/mrproject [planner] graphics/dia > deskutils/glabels mail/evolution editors/AbiWord2 > > 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'd like to see an "extensions" category that contains additions to other things. Things like applets, -extras, -extensions, gnome-theme-extras, etc. gnome2-h4x0r-t00lz i like though. still not thrilled with the name though. I'd like to see maybe an entertainment category. Totem, rhythmbox, xchat2, gossip, gnomeicu2, etc. Maybe a systemtools category that contains gftp, gnomenetwork, etc. Dunno where all of this leaves gkrellm and gdesklets, but I think that they should be in the same category. Besides, gdesklets seems to be becoming more popular than gkrellm2, development of which seems to have slowed to a halt. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger vectors.cx >> adam@vectors.cx >> http://www.vectors.cx magnesium.net << adamw@magnesium.net << http://www.magnesium.net/~adamw FreeBSD >> adamw@FreeBSD.org >> http://people.freebsd.org/~adamw #vim:set ts=8: 8-char tabs prevent tooth decay.
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