the mate port

[clutton]

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 23:44 +0100, Koop Mast wrote:
> On 11/11/13 19:01, Eric Turgeon wrote:
> > Hi Kris,
> >
> > Mate is probably ready for porting. I just need to make sure that the last
> > update work well.
> >
> >
> 
> It is on my plate, I just want to tackle one issue and then it should be 
> ready. If I dedicate a night I might get it done. About gnome3 we 
> managed to iron out some major problems with ajacoutot@ from OpenBSD 
> pointing us in the right directions. Some smaller (and hopefull easier) 
> problems still there, but in general it about commit ready. We just need 
> to think up a way of dropping this in ports with the minimal amount of 
> fuss (yes gnome2 will die at the same time).
> 
> -Koop
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> >
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> >> On 11/10/2013 21:13, clutton wrote:
> >>> Recently I've seen a GhostBSD or whatever it calls.
> >>> It has the mate port, which works stable, and looks nice.
> >>>
> >>> It really works solid, what is the reason to not to merge mate port into
> >>> ports tree for so long time?
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> Do we have anything in the works to get ports of Mate, Gnome3 and others
> >> into the tree?
> >>

Well done! I've realised now that not everything is working so good.
But it's better to have this here than in Marcus ports.

The main problem now is other ports, which depend on gnome2, you know
libgnomeui, gnome-keyring.

More people will help to resolve those problems, I hope.
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