[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

That wastes space.  Why would you want to install a theme several times
for each user when you can just install it once and have everyone use it?

Michael Sterrett
   -Mr. Bones.-
mr_bones_@g.o


On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote:

> I have another proposal... remove all themes from portage. We only need ebuild og gtk-engines and similar. Themes don't need a build system or are complex to install. Any user can go to www.X-theme.org watch the screenshot, download the theme  and install it.
> We must mantain ebuild of themes that need a build system or complex operations (again gtk-engines).
>
> I did it some similar with ebook-ebuilds. I removed all ebook-ebuild from portage and create an user script to download and install them.
>
> Regards
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:12:24 +0200
> Simon Toth <happy.cerberus@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so:
>>
>> INTRO:
>> I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage,
>> but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when
>> creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess
>> in theme packages. They are both in media-gfx and x11-themes, they are
>> named without any convention.
>>
>> PROPOSAL:
>> 1) create a new directory in portage root eye-candy [or similar]
>> 2) move all theme packages in there
>> 3) follow the naming convention: [application]-[type]-[name] (for gentoo
>> cursors this would be x11-cursors-gentoo, or for kdm theme tux mania it
>> would be kdm-theme-tuxmania)
>> 4) keep original packages as meta packages with notice, that users
>> should upgrade
>>
>> --
>> Bc. Simon Toth
>> www.fi.muni.cz/~xtoth1/
>>
>>
>
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