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From: Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez <bass@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:12:57
Message-Id: 20060821111011.d7ade819.bass@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff) by "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-"
1 A normal user doesn't install 50 themes, install maybe 5 themes?
2 about 100kb per theme? 500kb of waste space per user, not too much, now think how many kb wsate all the themes ebuilds, digest, etc and how much time it take to sync.
3
4
5 On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:11:00 -0400 (EDT)
6 "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com> wrote:
7
8 > That wastes space. Why would you want to install a theme several times
9 > for each user when you can just install it once and have everyone use it?
10 >
11 > Michael Sterrett
12 > -Mr. Bones.-
13 > mr_bones_@g.o
14 >
15 >
16 > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote:
17 >
18 > > I have another proposal... remove all themes from portage. We only need ebuild og gtk-engines and similar. Themes don't need a build system or are complex to install. Any user can go to www.X-theme.org watch the screenshot, download the theme and install it.
19 > > We must mantain ebuild of themes that need a build system or complex operations (again gtk-engines).
20 > >
21 > > I did it some similar with ebook-ebuilds. I removed all ebook-ebuild from portage and create an user script to download and install them.
22 > >
23 > > Regards
24 > >
25 > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:12:24 +0200
26 > > Simon Toth <happy.cerberus@×××××.com> wrote:
27 > >
28 > >> Hi,
29 > >>
30 > >> I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so:
31 > >>
32 > >> INTRO:
33 > >> I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage,
34 > >> but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when
35 > >> creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess
36 > >> in theme packages. They are both in media-gfx and x11-themes, they are
37 > >> named without any convention.
38 > >>
39 > >> PROPOSAL:
40 > >> 1) create a new directory in portage root eye-candy [or similar]
41 > >> 2) move all theme packages in there
42 > >> 3) follow the naming convention: [application]-[type]-[name] (for gentoo
43 > >> cursors this would be x11-cursors-gentoo, or for kdm theme tux mania it
44 > >> would be kdm-theme-tuxmania)
45 > >> 4) keep original packages as meta packages with notice, that users
46 > >> should upgrade
47 > >>
48 > >> --
49 > >> Bc. Simon Toth
50 > >> www.fi.muni.cz/~xtoth1/
51 > >>
52 > >>
53 > >
54 > --
55 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
56 >
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