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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-20 04:01, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>> You can't found any other DE's packages on the repo.
>> 
>> 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.
Right. It's the same on FreeBSD for which I've been a maintainer for some
10yrs, and rightly so. It's additional overhead to manage source/packages.
Even when they go un(used|maintained). So a commitment should/needs to be
established.

> 
> XFCE would be nice indeed, I packaged it back in OpenSolaris days :)
I'll get started today. :-)

--Chris
> 
> 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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