On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Christopher Turkel wrote:
I tried the sparky CDE package and they don?t set the hostname right so the desktop applications menu from the menu barfs an error and doesn?t work.
That was my experience, too. While I'm grateful to anyone for pre-compiling, packaging, SPEC-file creation, etc... The existing stuff out there still has a laundry list after you install it. The wiki instructions are good, I agree with those who mentioned that. However, while I can just grab the sourceball, compile, and fix anything that comes up, the folks who asked me about CDE for a lab environment are more limited.
Still, it's cool that some distros have it in their packages/ports repos. I also didn't know about CDEdebian, even though it sounds like a it's now a bust. That's actually what I was hoping to find: either a CDE-based distro or a well-put-together set of packages that were meant for certain mainstream OSes.
I will probably help out and create some packages using Mike Sweet's old EPM packager (https://www.msweet.org/epm/). I like it because it'll allow you to roll packages that have pre/post-install/remove scripts but don't interfere with the local package system. It'd allow me to compile, customize, and roll packages for their lab machines pretty easily and I can pre-configure applications, write scripts to insert any inetd.conf entries, and pre-load any fancy included media like wallpapers.
Knowing there is *not* an already CDE centric OS distro kinda makes a guy want to create one. However, though I have the skills to create one, I do *not* have the energy to maintain something like that over any length of time.
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