From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUREs-00032t-Is for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:47:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D39BE073B; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DA8E073B for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E88664389 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:47:15 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds Message-ID: <20090203194715.GB3819@comet> References: <1233675279.6250.95.camel@localhost> <20090203192431.GA3819@comet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090203192431.GA3819@comet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: 661694e2-7256-4611-853a-486a28519121 X-Archives-Hash: a2570d431640feef60f6156516578feb --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Could you expand on how each new category is useful? >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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=20 convinced of this many new ones. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkmIn0MACgkQXVaO67S1rttkSwCfZMPyXzfS/Tb1MvhQuxHNf1UN GYQAoK1XzuLEYuxApoq2IR3nixC+foDq =0/Je -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU--