On Friday 18 August 2006 08:12 am, Simon Toth wrote: > INTRO: > I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, > but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when > creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess > in theme packages. They are both in media-gfx and x11-themes, they are > named without any convention.
Themes is kind of tricky. More on that in a bit. > PROPOSAL: > 1) create a new directory in portage root eye-candy [or similar] Naming needs help, but that's for later ;) > 2) move all theme packages in there I assume you mean everything in x11-themes? > 3) follow the naming convention: [application]-[type]-[name] (for gentoo > cursors this would be x11-cursors-gentoo, or for kdm theme tux mania it > would be kdm-theme-tuxmania) This worries me... I'm afraid this will promote users to start sending us themes for everything and the kitchen sink. This is a nightmare to an already interesting problem of tree maintainance. > 4) keep original packages as meta packages with notice, that users > should upgrade We add this to an update file which handles this for users transparently. -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka: ChrisWhite cpw ChrisWhite|Work WhiteChocolate VanillaWhite Whitey WhiteLight WhiteCheese WhiteSugar WhiteButter WhiteWall WhiteLemon WhiteApple WhiteBlanket WhiteEnergy WhiteWhite
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