[OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> I would love to have XFCE.
>
> But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to
MATE.
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> You can't found any other DE's packages on the repo.
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> There are packages for many window manager, though.
>
> You have to do pretty much anything yourself, with your own repo
publisher.
>
> BTW, at least I know XFCE is possible on Illumos. Tribblix's default
desktop is XFCE.
>
> I don't have much hope about Cinnamon. But if you can bring it up, I
would love to have it, too.

Hello,
it is not really about being loyal to MATE but commiting to maintain the
packages.

When swithing to gcc 10 I had to patch a few dozen packages that I do not
use or maintain but the original maintainer had no time or interest to fix
it.

We want to avoid situations were large pieces of software are added then
left to rot.

This is unfortunately the case for some important packahes due to recent
circumstances that have reduced our number of maintainers drastically.

There is not strong opinion against packages in general, just a question of
commitment to maintain them.

XFCE would be nice indeed, I packaged it back in OpenSolaris days :)

Cheers,

Aurélien
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> ---- On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:55:13 +0700 Chris <oidev at bsdos.info> wrote
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>  > Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares.
>  > I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading
>  > some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I
>  > stumbled on distribution-constructor and thought; why
>  > not build up some additional desktop installs. I had
>  > intended to build both the Xfce4 and Cinnamon desktop
>  > packages anyway. So why not ask to see if the any
>  > OI users/developers/caretakers would be interested in
>  > providing xfce4 or cinnamon desktop ISO and USB images.
>  > Would something like this be of any interest?
>  > If so. I'll start building all the necessary bits straight
>  > away.
>  >
>  > Thanks for your feedback.
>  >
>  > --Chris
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