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On 15:34 Tue 03 Feb , Angelo Arrifano wrote: |
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> We at -embedded would like to introduce GPE - The G Palmtop Environment. |
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Hi, |
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Very cool that you've been working on this! |
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> We currently provide an eclass and ebuilds arranged by top level |
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> categories following upstream categorization. Explicitly gpe.eclass and |
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> top level gpe-base gpe-net gpe-pim gpe-games gpe-utils gpe-media |
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> gpe-xsession. |
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> We know we have a lot of them but upstream finds useful to classify them |
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> like that and so do we. |
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Could you expand on how each new category is useful? |
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> The eclass and some ebuilds were based on bugzie #101393. We started |
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> playing with them as big flat gpe-base category which evolved over time |
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> by means of consecutive testing on ARMv5 handheld devices and needs. |
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> Since we are maintaining this over half a year now, we think that its |
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> time to finally starting moving step-by-step the GPE suite into the |
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> portage tree - starting with the eclass and toplevel categories. |
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What are the stats on package count per category? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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