* Chris Bennett ([email protected]) wrote:
>
>
> Ian Darwin wrote:
>> Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:28:34PM -0600, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>>>
>>>> (what about a GNOME meta-package?)
>>>>
>>>
>>> If meta-packages will get separate cetegory (subdir) under ${PORTSDIR}
>>> I support the idea, otherwise I'm against.
>>>
>>> I would like to hear others opinion.
>>>
>>>
>> Works for me; I came up w/ same idea (for kde) a year ago. No strong
>> pref on having own category
>> or not; gnome and kde would make sense in X11, for example.
>>
>> As they are of especial benefit to the mythical "user", it might make
>> sense to use the same or
>> at least similar names and scopes to meta-packages on other systems
>> (Ubuntu Linux at least
>> uses them).
>>
>>
> I realize that this "sounds" tempting and "seems" reasonable. When I
> first started using OpenBSD a few years ago, I found the process of
> having to individually download each KDE package , OOH SOO irritating!!
> But I now deeply appreciate having control over my operating system and
> pretty much only getting what "I" want, not what "someone else," has
> deemed appropriate for me.
> Now that I've "Matured", I don't even use KDE any more!
>
So when you started out, a few tips could have helped, but now you know
your way around, good for you. meta-packages are not a way to force you
into installing things if you don't want to, individual packages can
still be installed. But plenty of gnome users have no clue what needs
to be installed and then started for it to work correctly. I think it's
a little sad people don't get a full blown gnome desktop without
installing plenty of packages manually. Most other ports you just pkg_add
away and run (e.g: firefox).
