On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:21:57AM +0200, Peter Hessler wrote: > Antoine asked me to make this public. Totally in support of having a > small number of meta packages *only when it makes sense*. Gnome is one > of these cases. > > ----- Forwarded message from Peter Hessler <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 01:36:16 +0200 > From: Peter Hessler <[email protected]> > To: Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports > > On 2009 Jun 01 (Mon) at 16:28:34 -0600 (-0600), Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > :CVSROOT: /cvs > :Module name: ports > :Changes by: [email protected] 2009/06/01 16:28:34 > : > :Modified files: > : x11/gnome/session: Makefile > : x11/gnome/session/files: README.OpenBSD > : > :Log message: > :- mention nautilus-open-terminal... > :(what about a GNOME meta-package?) > : > > so `pkg_add meta-gnome` installs everything that provides the "gnome > environment"? Hell Yes!
I'm still not fond of this for various reasons. The main reason being that updates won't be too happy with this... the other reason being the editorial part: what do you put into gnome ? what don't you ? and when you change versions, how does stuff change ? will updates cope correctly. It's a recipe for problems with pkg_add... I wish it were not so, but it will meet with the brittle parts of the tools...
