From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FRs1e-0001N7-DT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:33:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k37EWDRl027793; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:32:13 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k37ESgbN031049 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:28:42 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FRrx4-00065Q-77 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:28:42 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FRrws-0003Ov-U7 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:28:30 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:28:30 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:28:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:28:06 -0700 Organization: Organization? Me? Message-ID: References: <4435CDBC.1030801@gentoo.org> <200604071430.57534.carlo@gentoo.org> <4436690E.8010400@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8dbf8ed7-de4f-4691-82b3-72edb63354fe X-Archives-Hash: 53a5d4588f8793f16ee564e4e42868a4 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? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list