A few suggestions

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 14:16 +0200, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> While performing my upgrade to gnome 2.12.1, I noticed that in the FAQ 
> there is a mention of using cvsup for updating the ports tree. Perhaps 
> we could add a mention of portsnap as well, now that it is in the base 
> system.

Can you draft up a paragraph on this for the FAQ?

> 
> On another note, I've been using a few FreeBSD-specific gnome/gtk apps 
> that improve the usability of the system and the integration with the 
> desktop environment, like sysutils/thefish, sysutils/gtk-send-pr and 
> even sysutils/bpm. The thing is, someone who hasn't been using FreeBSD 
> for a long time, is unlikely to be aware of their existence. If they 
> could be included in gnome2-power-tools or somesuch 
> (gnome2-freebsd-tools, gnome2-system-tools?), chances are they could be 
> spotted more easily. I suspect there might be others among the 13000 
> ports I haven't discovered yet and I personally have some plans for some 
> new ones. It would be nice if there could be a metaport to host them all.

Not a bad idea.  Adding these to power-tools is probably the way to go.

Joe

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