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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE packages/categories and subcategories
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:29:23
Message-Id: 20010808142923.E11524@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE packages/categories and subcategories by Dan Armak
1 On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:16:11PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 23:05, you wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:53:23PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
4 > > > > There are many hundreds if not thousands of
5 > > > > apps registered on apps.kde.com, in 20+ categories.
6 > > >
7 > > > I checked; there are 1,071 apps.
8 > >
9 > > I just talked to Hallski, the Desktop Team Leader, and he will be
10 > > reorganizing the gnome-* and kde-* categories. kde-apps, gnome-apps and
11 > > gnome-libs will go away and the displaced ebuilds will be incorporated into
12 > > the remaining categories. In other words, gnome office apps will go in
13 > > app-office, etc. So, problem resolved.
14 >
15 > So, this is Solution 3 on my list - the freebsd lookalike.
16 >
17 > I suppose we'll have to make a script to change /var/db/pkg to reflect this
18 > change. Otherwise pre-installed packages won't be able to satisfy
19 > dependencies.
20 >
21 > Also, to be consistent with this, shouldn't kde-base, kde-libs, gnome-base be
22 > joined as x11-de (for desktop environments) or x11-wm?
23
24 You can direct all specific questions to Hallski; he is in charge of the
25 reorganization. Also, if you can, please send *personal* email rather than
26 post to the list, as we have around 200 list members and I don't like the idea
27 of them getting bombarded with the volume of email that they have been
28 receiving these past few days.
29
30 --
31 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
32 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
33 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE packages/categories and subcategories Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>