On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:05:54 +0100
Ben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to add a new category to the tree: lxde-base, to be used
> for the LXDE desktop [1,2] packages, in correspondence to the
> categories for the other desktop environments we have (gnome, kde,
> xfce). With the help of a few users I have been developing ebuilds
> for these packages in the lxde overlay [3], and I would like to move
> the ebuilds for the release versions into the official tree now. (The
> overlay also contains live svn ebuilds.)
> 
> LXDE currently has 14 packages that would go into this new category,
> which is comparable to what xfce-base has. It also uses x11-wm/openbox
> as default WM, and x11-misc/pcmanfm as default filemanager, although
> these can be easily swapped for others.
> 
> Comments are welcome!

As a use who looked at LXDE for older machines, but decided that not to
mess around with overlays on otherwise stable x86 boxes, can I vote for
this?

> 1: http://lxde.org/
> 2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/157989
> 3: http://www.bitbucket.org/yngwin/lxde-overlay/src/

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