@ David:
I'm reluctant to make suggestions about specific screensavers as it is
essentially subjective, at least until there is a general agreement that
we should cut the number down. I'd rather not get caught up in debating
the aesthetic qualities of the different screensavers. The only
technical motivations are based on Tormod's comments.
The screensavers included in the rss-glx package are: Biof, Busy
Spheres, Colorfire (which I actually really like), Cyclone, Drempels,
Euphoria, Feedback, Fieldlines, Flocks, Flux, Helios, Hufo's Smoke,
Hufo's Tunnel, Hyperspace, Lattice, Lorenz Attractor, MatrixView,
Plasma, Skyrocket, Solarwinds, SpirographX, and Sundancer2.
Dropping one of the three packages from the desktop seed would be the
simplest way to cut the number down. That said, I'd be willing to do the
work to split the packages if it's decided that we should make a go at
it...
@ Tormod:
I was think about ways to perhaps split the xscreensaver packages with
out having to create a diff between the Debian and Ubuntu packages.
Attached is a patch against collab-maint/xscreensaver.git
It creates data.{Debian, Ubuntu}, data-extra.{Debian, Ubuntu},
gl.{Debian, Ubuntu}, and gl-extras.{Debian, Ubuntu} listing the hacks
that belong in each package. It also creates a script called from
debian/rules which determines if the package is being built on Debian or
Ubuntu, and then installs the appropriate hacks to the appropriate
package.
Currently it doesn't actually remove any hacks from the Ubuntu package.
It just provides the infrastructure to do so in a more manageable
fashion. It works, but could use some more effort. I just wanted to see
if folks thought this was good direction before putting more time into
it....
** Attachment added: "maintainer-script.patch"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29171455/maintainer-script.patch
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