-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 * Chris White wrote, On 18.8.2006 17:32: > On Friday 18 August 2006 08:12 am, Simon Toth wrote: >> 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. > > Themes is kind of tricky. More on that in a bit. > >> PROPOSAL: >> 1) create a new directory in portage root eye-candy [or similar] > > Naming needs help, but that's for later ;) > >> 2) move all theme packages in there > > I assume you mean everything in x11-themes? I had the feeling that there were some programs, hallucinations are coming, I better get a pause :)
>> 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) > > This worries me... I'm afraid this will promote users to start sending us > themes for everything and the kitchen sink. This is a nightmare to an > already interesting problem of tree maintainance. Well, do you really think that moving some packages and changing their names will cause people sending packages? :) Instead it will improve the maintenance, look into x11-themes, there are one word named packages! (example, what is comix? theme, program, cursors package?) >> 4) keep original packages as meta packages with notice, that users >> should upgrade > > We add this to an update file which handles this for users transparently. Even better :) - -- Bc. Simon Toth www.fi.muni.cz/~xtoth1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE5efMQDhHfsv/z6ARAwigAJ91Sv9BhY6Z1lXVOaB+olguu6mcawCgmc0d 5wM/3mSA0N2FJcFwJZLJrtM= =enlL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
