RE: Gnome Packaging

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:06, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> How distros allow their users to choose packages, or groups of 
> packages is entirely controlled by distros.

Nevertheless, how they exert their control is always influenced by the
package maintainers.

Now, all I really know is Gentoo.  I'll simply assume that other distros
get a similar impression of the requirements and contents of Gnome.

The dependencies of the 'Gnome' meta package (meta package as it's not
actually a package in itself, rather a group of others) is:

    >=gnome-base/gconf-2.4.0.1
    >=gnome-base/ORBit2-2.8.1
    >=dev-libs/atk-1.4
    >=media-libs/audiofile-0.2.3
    >=media-sound/esound-0.2.32
    >=gnome-base/gail-1.4
    >=dev-libs/glib-2.2.3
    >=gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4
    >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.4
    >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.4-r1
    >=media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.16
                                                                                
    >=gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4
    >=gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.4
    >=gnome-base/libglade-2.0.1
    >=gnome-base/libgnome-2.4
    >=gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.4
    >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.4.0.1
                                                                                
    >=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.2
    >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.5.11
    >=dev-libs/libxslt-1.0.33
    >=x11-libs/pango-1.2.5
                                                                                
    >=gnome-extra/acme-2.4
    >=gnome-extra/bug-buddy-2.4
                                                                                
    >=gnome-base/control-center-2.4
                                                                                
    >=gnome-base/eel-2.4
    >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.4
    >=gnome-extra/nautilus-media-0.3.3.1
                                                                                
    >=media-gfx/eog-2.4
    >=net-www/epiphany-1
    >=app-arch/file-roller-2.4.0.1
    >=gnome-extra/gcalctool-4.3.3

    >=gnome-extra/gconf-editor-2.4
    >=gnome-base/gdm-2.2
    >=app-editors/gedit-2.4
    >=app-text/ggv-2.4.0.1
    >=app-text/gpdf-0.110
    >=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.4
    >=gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.4
    >=gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.4
                                                                                
    >=x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.2
    >=x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.0.9
                                                                                
    >=gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.4
    >=gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.4
    >=gnome-base/gnome-session-2.4
    >=gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor-2.4
    >=x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1
    >=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.4
    >=gnome-extra/gnome2-user-docs-2.4
    >=gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.4
    >=media-libs/gstreamer-0.6.3
    >=media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.3
    >=x11-libs/gtksourceview-0.6
    >=gnome-extra/gucharmap-1
    >=gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.3.1
    >=gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.3.1
    =gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.4*
    >=gnome-base/libgtop-2.0.5
    >=gnome-base/librsvg-2.4
    >=x11-libs/libwnck-2.4.0.1
    >=x11-wm/metacity-2.6.1
    >=gnome-extra/zenity-1.6
                                                                                
    >=x11-libs/startup-notification-0.5
                                                                                
    >=gnome-extra/yelp-2.4
    >=x11-libs/vte-0.11.10
                                                                                
    >=app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.12
    >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.15
    >=dev-util/intltool-0.27.2
    cdr? ( >=gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-0.5.3 )
    doc? ( >=dev-util/gtk-doc-0.15 )"

Is it me, or is this list starting to get big?  That looks almost
unmanageable - but if it were broken down into separate meta packages...

Actually, it already is - gnome-desktop, gnome-games - and I'm just
suggesting that this could be taken further in order to simplify things
from an outside perspective as well as an internal one.

- Charlie

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Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>
XWT Foundation - www.xwt.org