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From: Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@×××××××.tr>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About XFCE, renames, eclass, etc
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:19:07
Message-Id: 4A9F61E0.1040206@caf.com.tr
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] About XFCE, renames, eclass, etc by Jeremy Olexa
1 On 03.09.2009 05:38, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
2 > - xfce4-meta : former name xfce-base/xfce4. Renamed to reflect reality.
3 > This meta package is the *core* of XFCE, it *only* has in it what is
4 > required to run. Thus, returning XFCE to a minimalistic status in Gentoo
5 > Linux. This is desired because most XFCE users are looking for a
6 > lightweight WM, not a heavy DE. So, users will have to add a terminal,
7 > orage, thunar, etc to the world file instead of relying on a meta package.
8
9 Thanks a lot for the update and for the awesome work. One note for the
10 future:
11
12 An ewarn would have been nice for the above point. emerge --depclean
13 output was a surprise (wanted to unmerge terminal etc) and surprise is
14 bad. We don't want any surprises.
15
16 Thanks again.
17 --
18 Eray

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About XFCE, renames, eclass, etc Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>