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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE packages/categories and subcategories
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:35:38
Message-Id: 0108082336440G.00611@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE packages/categories and subcategories by Daniel Robbins
1 On Wednesday 08 August 2001 23:29, you wrote:
2 > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:16:11PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
3 > > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 23:05, you wrote:
4 > > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:53:23PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
5 > > > > > There are many hundreds if not thousands of
6 > > > > > apps registered on apps.kde.com, in 20+ categories.
7 > > > >
8 > > > > I checked; there are 1,071 apps.
9 > > >
10 > > > I just talked to Hallski, the Desktop Team Leader, and he will be
11 > > > reorganizing the gnome-* and kde-* categories. kde-apps, gnome-apps
12 > > > and gnome-libs will go away and the displaced ebuilds will be
13 > > > incorporated into the remaining categories. In other words, gnome
14 > > > office apps will go in app-office, etc. So, problem resolved.
15 > >
16 > > So, this is Solution 3 on my list - the freebsd lookalike.
17 > >
18 > > I suppose we'll have to make a script to change /var/db/pkg to reflect
19 > > this change. Otherwise pre-installed packages won't be able to satisfy
20 > > dependencies.
21 > >
22 > > Also, to be consistent with this, shouldn't kde-base, kde-libs,
23 > > gnome-base be joined as x11-de (for desktop environments) or x11-wm?
24 >
25 > You can direct all specific questions to Hallski; he is in charge of the
26 > reorganization. Also, if you can, please send *personal* email rather than
27 > post to the list, as we have around 200 list members and I don't like the
28 > idea of them getting bombarded with the volume of email that they have been
29 > receiving these past few days.
30 OK, now that we have more mailing lists, this will right itself. Topic, off
31 the list! :-)
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36 Dan Armak
37 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
38 Matan, Israel

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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE packages/categories and subcategories "Thomas M. Beaudry" <k8la@××××.net>