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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-20 03:55, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote:
> ---- On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:46:30 +0700 Chris <oidev at bsdos.info> wrote ----
> 
>  > On 2021-01-19 22:58, Judah Richardson wrote:
>  > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:55 AM Chris <oidev at bsdos.info> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> 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.
>  > >>
>  > > Hi Chris,
>  > >
>  > > I'd be most interested in OI KDE spins.
>  > Thanks for your feedback, Judah.
>  > I'd probably be up for that. But as I haven't touched KDE in at
>  > least a year. I may be slower than you'd wish. Still, I'll
>  > make a go of it. :-)
>  > I'll likely have an Xfce4 before that. As I'm already well familiar
>  > building it.
>  >
>  > Thanks again!
>  > >
> If you could please have a look at the Trinity DE, too. It's KDE3 indeed.
> 
> https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
> 
> It advertised that it support Linux, FreeBSD and DilOS.
> 
> DilOS is just another Illumos distro and I confirm that there are tde's 
> packages on DilOS.
> 
> The sad thing is I can't really get them to install because of umet 
> dependencies.
Thanks for the pointer! That should really give me a "leg up" on development.
As many of the depends will already be sorted. I'll only need to sort the
differences between OI and theirs.

--Chris
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