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Hello |
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The plan is to introduce MATE to the Portage tree next week; in order |
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to accomplish that, two new categories for MATE specific packages need |
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to be made. These categories would be named mate-base and mate-extra: |
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mate-base: contains MATE specific packages that are either part of |
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the main MATE DE or MATE specific libraries, and the meta package; |
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mate-extra: contains extra MATE software by The MATE Team that is |
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specific to the MATE desktop, or integrates with it; things that |
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can work outside of the MATE DE (eg. GTK+ themes) are NOT part of |
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this, as they fit in more specific categories (eg. x11-themes). |
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Currently, the MATE overlay has 14 meta-base packages and 16 mate-extra |
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packages; this might slightly change when reconsidering if their |
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location is alright, however it is near the average (~15) per category |
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so that should be fit. |
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When discussing this in the #gentoo-desktop; it was brought up by leio |
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that there are various other categories with *-base suffix, and some |
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categories do the *-extra suffix (gnome, rox and xfce). There are also |
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other categories that use a different suffix (kde-misc, gnustep-*). |
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Infirit (the overlay maintainer) highlights that they historically were |
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introduced to reflect the categories that were used by the GNOME team; |
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it makes as this a fork, so I think we should keep it similar to that. |
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As it is quite common it seems that mate-base would be fine; mate-extra |
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is up for discussion if anyone is interested and/or wants to see this |
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different, as to avoid pkgmoves. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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