RFC: Restructuring GNOME meta-ports

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:50:49 -0500, Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> 
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)
>
> 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.

Or, opposite? x11/gnome2-desktop have the Whole Damn Thing. I think, 
x11/gnome2 should be stick to what www.gnome.org has.

> 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

graphics/inkscape is doing a lot better than graphics/sodipodi now, so 
should be either add or replace imo.

> 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.

I couldn't see how gkrellm can be part of Gnome, so I am disagree for 
gkrellm to be part of Gnome's meta port.

Anyway, it won't be easy to make that kind of decision...too many apps.. 
:-)

Cheers,
Mezz

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