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On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:44, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> One of my goals as manager of the desktop project is to get things to |
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> "just work." Once they're emerged, just run them and things are good to |
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> go. |
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for i in `ls games-*`; do emerge $i; done |
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Those work out of the box, with exactly two exceptions that I can |
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recall, which are ut2003 and ut2004, both of which require the user to |
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ebuild /path/to/ebuild config them to enter their CD key. |
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> Since I can't try everything, I need some feedback from you guys. What |
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> already does a great job at this? What stands out in your minds as being |
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> forgettable because of the lack of set-up effort? |
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Well, to be honest, quite a lot in the desktop arena seems to "just |
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work" when merged. I've never had a problem with X (XFree86 or X.Org) |
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not working after being installed. Gnome has never failed me. |
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In fact, I find my biggest problem with anything that would fall under |
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the "desktop" TLP is finding them. For example, I just found |
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gnome-btdownload the other day and for a package that I never knew |
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existed before then, it is now an essential part of my Gentoo |
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experience. |
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> On the other side, what is really hard to configure? Where can we |
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> improve how we set things up when programs are emerged? |
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I haven't found much of anything hard to configure, other than working |
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32-bit OpenGL emulation on amd64. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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