[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Simon Stelling posted <4436690E.8010400@gentoo.org>, excerpted below,  on
Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:28:46 +0200:

> Carsten Lohrke wrote:
>> On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes
>>> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding
>>> along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it.
>> 
>> There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with regards to branding and
>> the outcome was to refrain from it. I don't have a problem, when we do
>> this for live iso's, but generally I strongly dislike it. Users don't
>> choose their distro because of it, so it's just unnecessary bloat. And
>> given that we tout Gentoo a meta distribution, encouraging others to
>> build on it, there's no point forcing them to have to clean out the
>> Gentoo brand, before they actually can use it.
> 
> He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken?

Something like a metapackage that deps on gentoo-xcursor and similar
packages, maybe?  That would unify installation/merging.  Include an
emerge --config script that in turn unifies the configuration?

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