Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

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On 11:24 Tue 03 Feb     , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > We currently provide an eclass and ebuilds arranged by top level
> > categories following upstream categorization. Explicitly gpe.eclass and
> > top level gpe-base gpe-net gpe-pim gpe-games gpe-utils gpe-media
> > gpe-xsession.
> > We know we have a lot of them but upstream finds useful to classify them
> > like that and so do we.
> 
> Could you expand on how each new category is useful?
> 
> > The eclass and some ebuilds were based on bugzie #101393. We started
> > playing with them as big flat gpe-base category which evolved over time
> > by means of consecutive testing on ARMv5 handheld devices and needs.
> > 
> > Since we are maintaining this over half a year now, we think that its
> > time to finally starting moving step-by-step the GPE suite into the
> > portage tree - starting with the eclass and toplevel categories.
> 
> What are the stats on package count per category?

I got this from solar:

     30 gpe-base
      8 gpe-games
      4 gpe-media
      9 gpe-misc
      2 gpe-net
     32 gpe-phone
      6 gpe-pim
     18 gpe-utils
      8 gpe-xsession

Unless those tiny ones are going to be growing a lot, I'm not terribly 
convinced of this many new ones.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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