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Hi! |
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First of all, sorry fot the turbulense in the portage tree this weekend. |
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It's probably finished now (there can off course be some errors/typos in |
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there). I'll write another email to describe what GNOME/Gtk+ users has |
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to do. |
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New structure of GNOME-stuff: |
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First of all I have restructured GNOME in portage. There are now only |
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two different GNOME categories. Nothing should be added in any of these |
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two categories without consulting me or the current GNOME maintainer at |
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that time. This is because these categories should only contain package |
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in or closly related to the GNOME project (that doesn't include GNOME |
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apps). |
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gnome-base: |
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This is for base/core packages in GNOME. This is the core libraries, |
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gdm (GNOME Display Manager) and Nautilus. |
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gnome-extra: |
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This category conatains apps and libraries that are not being |
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considered a core part of GNOME but very closely related. This |
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involves extra libraries (as GAL, GtkHTML, ...) and some small apps |
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(like mc, gnome-[utils|media|audio|games], battstat). |
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What happend to gnome-[apps|libs|office]: |
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These categories has been removed. The packages from these categories |
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has been moved to other categories where they belong. The reason for |
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this is that gnome-apps was beginning to get rather big and with not |
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internal categories users would have no way of knowing which packages |
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were editors for example. |
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Everything installs in /usr: |
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As decided everything should now install in /usr. This means that |
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/opt/gnome has been removed. Also libraries and applications that |
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installed in /usr/X11R6 are now installing into /usr aswell. |
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/opt are now intended for binary installs. Like Netscape, acroread, |
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RealPlayer ... |
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Regards, |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader |
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CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden |
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