A few suggestions

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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?

Something like this perhaps?

1. Update your ports tree.

To build GNOME 2.12, you need to obtain the 2.12 ports tree skeleton. This
is most easily accomplished with portsnap(8) or CVSup. Simply obtain the
latest ports tree, and you are ready to go. After you have obtained the
latest ports tree, do not run a typical portupgrade(1).


>>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.

Here is a quick patch then:


diff -ruN /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools.old/Makefile 
/usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools/Makefile
--- /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools.old/Makefile      Mon Nov  7 
07:54:53 2005+++ /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools/Makefile  Mon Nov  7 
14:24:37 2005
@@ -33,7 +33,11 @@
                 brightside:${PORTSDIR}/x11/brightside \
 
evolution-gconf-filter-exchange:${PORTSDIR}/devel/evolution-gconf-tools \
 
${X11BASE}/libexec/quick-lounge-applet:${PORTSDIR}/misc/quick-lounge-applet 
\
-               eiciel:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/eiciel
+               eiciel:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/eiciel \
+               gtk-send-pr:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/gtk-send-pr \
+               thefish:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/thefish \
+               bpm:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/bpm \
+               pbrowser:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/portbrowser

  MASTERDIR=     ${.CURDIR}/../gnome2
  GNOME_SLAVE=   yes


Would it be ok to add x11-themes/beastie in it too?


Cheers,
Panagiotis