On 08/02/2011 09:20 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hello fellow developers, > > I would like to discuss the possibility to create a new virtual package > for all the icon-theme packages. According to this bug[1], it seems like > pcmanfm, and possible other applications too, require an icon-theme to > be present, no matter which one. So I think it would make sense to > create a new virtual package to include all the existing icon-themes. > > ++: Avoid ugly dependencies like || ( x11-themes/foo-icon-theme > x11-themes/bar-icon-theme ... ) > > --: Not all packages include the same icons so users may end up with > missing icons for some applications. However, most icon themes should > include all the basic icons. > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376309 > > Thoughts? >
since whatever gets added to the virtual should be at least almost up to date with the spec, and provide the most common icons virtual/freedesktop-icon-theme for name, just my opinion... http://standards.freedesktop.org/ as HOMEPAGE freedesktop-b...@gentoo.org as maintainer
