Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:26:56 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org Cc: reg@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, vanilla@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: USE_GTK and USE_GNOME Message-ID: <20001002132656.K15530@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <39D8C684.8A438F60@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:31:48PM %2B0300 References: <20001002012649.G30468@shale.csir.co.za> <39D86165.C21837F1@FreeBSD.org> <20001002102510.H15530@supernews.net> <39D8B9F6.C55F8257@FreeBSD.org> <20001002101657.J30468@shale.csir.co.za> <39D8C684.8A438F60@FreeBSD.org>
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[gah! wrap your lines at <75 characters please] On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:31:48PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Nope. Gnome is a developed as a component software, so the programmer is > free to choose whether he wants to use full set of features provided by > Gnome, or just a small set of it (for example nice widgets provided by > gnomelibs). Therefore, IMHO it is just plain wrong to tell that any port > that uses part of Gnome, no matter how small subset it is, requires > full-blown Gnome metaport to be installed. This is why, with Gnome 1.4, things are changing. There will be two meta-ports, one called x11/gnome, which will contain a "minimal" (if that means anything) installation. Almost certainly none of the applications that are currently present, just the core libraries, basic widget sets, etc.) - if a port is GNOMEish, then it will simply need to depend on this port. It may be possible for ports to use only parts of x11/gnome to actually run, but I (at least) will consider such ports to be "unsupported", and won't test them should x11/gnome (or its components) get updated. Alongside this will be a new meta-port, x11/gnome-extra sounds like a good name right now, which will initially be a list of RUN_DEPENDS of applications that are currently in x11/gnome, and possibly add a few more. Don't base any assumptions on the existing x11/gnome metaport, it's not going to be recognizable soon. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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