[gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[Pete Gavin]

Hi,

It doesn't look like there's an ebuild for xscreensaver... Where
should I put it if I make one? I was thinking either x11-base or
app-misc, since nothing else seems appropriate. Maybe we should make
an x11-apps category?

Pete

Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[Thomas Flavel]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:07:11PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It doesn't look like there's an ebuild for xscreensaver... Where
> should I put it if I make one? I was thinking either x11-base or
> app-misc, since nothing else seems appropriate. Maybe we should make
> an x11-apps category?
> 

Hello,

x11-base gets my vote; x11-apps would end up containing a lot of things,
and I think it is a good thing to have them indexed (as they currently
are) by what they do, not how they appear. Otherwise we would have to
have an console-apps category ;) and some applications can use both...

- Tom

Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[Achim Gottinger]

Thomas Flavel wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:07:11PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It doesn't look like there's an ebuild for xscreensaver... Where
> > should I put it if I make one? I was thinking either x11-base or
> > app-misc, since nothing else seems appropriate. Maybe we should make
> > an x11-apps category?
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> x11-base gets my vote; x11-apps would end up containing a lot of things,
> and I think it is a good thing to have them indexed (as they currently
> are) by what they do, not how they appear. Otherwise we would have to
> have an console-apps category ;) and some applications can use both...
> 
I agree with tom about x11/console apps. So my vote goes to app-misc.
I'm thinking about removing x11-base and creating a new category that 
can keep xfree, qt-embedded and gtk-embedded ( can I get it anywhere?).
I don't know a good name for that right now.

achim~

> - Tom
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Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[drobbins]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:07:11PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It doesn't look like there's an ebuild for xscreensaver... Where
> should I put it if I make one? I was thinking either x11-base or
> app-misc, since nothing else seems appropriate. Maybe we should make
> an x11-apps category?

Yes, I think that would be fine :)

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[drobbins]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:18:45AM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote:

> x11-base gets my vote; x11-apps would end up containing a lot of things,
> and I think it is a good thing to have them indexed (as they currently
> are) by what they do, not how they appear. Otherwise we would have to
> have an console-apps category ;) and some applications can use both...

Yes, in general that's the policy.  Maybe we should add an x11-misc category
for xscreensaver and friends?  It would be used for miscellaneous X-related
stuff that doesn't fit well in any other category.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver

[drobbins]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:30:18AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> I agree with tom about x11/console apps. So my vote goes to app-misc.
> I'm thinking about removing x11-base and creating a new category that 
> can keep xfree, qt-embedded and gtk-embedded ( can I get it anywhere?).
> I don't know a good name for that right now.

app-misc will be fine.  As for the new category, maybe "media-display" (it
would house display servers, direct rendering things like the "embedded" things
that render to the framebuffer device, GGI, etc).

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.