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From: Pavel Kazakov <nullishzero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New category lxqt-base
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 04:16:25
Message-Id: 53719C91.2060602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New category lxqt-base by Markos Chandras
1 On 05/12/2014 01:17 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > It's only me who spoke on behalf of LXDE so far :( gtk2 is still
3 > alive, and lxde said that while it's still alive, the GTK lxde will
4 > still be supported. After all, lxde-base, as the name implies, is for
5 > lxde-related packages (maintained by lxde@). The new project is lxqt,
6 > which makes the lxde category slightly irrelevant. Since the lxde team
7 > has nothing to do with it, this will add more confusion. That's my
8 > opinion. Same thing for razor-qt apparently. Fortunately/unfortunately
9 > there is this tendency to use a distinct category (and set of
10 > maintainers/herd) for each DE.
11
12 I'm of the same opinion. Since lxde will still be supported, I'm leaning
13 towards keeping lxde-base for lxde-related packages and using a new
14 category for lxqt.
15
16 >>> compton-conf
17 >>> libqtxdg
18 >>> qt-gtk-engine
19 >>> libfm
20 >>> libsysstat
21 >>> obconf-qt
22 >>> pcmanfm-qt
23 >> I think these packages could be placed in the relevant x11-*
24 >> categories, as they are perfectly usable in other environments as
25 >> well, tho for ease of maintenance you could stick them with the LXQt
26 >> packages.
27 >>
28 > +1 (pcmanfm-qt is already in the tree in x11-misc/, libfm too etc)
29 > Maybe it's possible to merge obconf and obconf-qt with a new 'qt' use
30 > flag. The less duplication we do, the less time we will need to spend
31 > maintaining the packages.
32 >
33
34 Agreed.
35
36 Regards,
37 Pavel