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On Friday 18 August 2006 08:12 am, Simon Toth wrote: |
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> INTRO: |
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> I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, |
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> but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when |
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> creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess |
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> in theme packages. They are both in media-gfx and x11-themes, they are |
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> named without any convention. |
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Themes is kind of tricky. More on that in a bit. |
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> PROPOSAL: |
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> 1) create a new directory in portage root eye-candy [or similar] |
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Naming needs help, but that's for later ;) |
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> 2) move all theme packages in there |
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I assume you mean everything in x11-themes? |
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> 3) follow the naming convention: [application]-[type]-[name] (for gentoo |
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> cursors this would be x11-cursors-gentoo, or for kdm theme tux mania it |
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> would be kdm-theme-tuxmania) |
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This worries me... I'm afraid this will promote users to start sending us |
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themes for everything and the kitchen sink. This is a nightmare to an |
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already interesting problem of tree maintainance. |
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> 4) keep original packages as meta packages with notice, that users |
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> should upgrade |
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We add this to an update file which handles this for users transparently. |
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