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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-20 04:10, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Please keep in mind, that almost every Linux distro has much more manpower 
> to
> maintain those many packages and DEs.
> 
> If you volunteer to maintain an other DE for OI  i doubt that this would be 
> a
> problem for our OI first-level maintainers.
> 
> Maybe a good starting point for XFCE would be Joyent's pkgsrc packages
> https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/
> https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2020Q4/x86_64/All/
> 
> you can get binary packages there i you want to try things out first.
> There have to be patches reay to compile for illumos distros
> so the first step would be starting to translate the pkgsrc package to a
> OI-userland component, starting from the first missing dependancy of 
> xfce4...
> 
> Have fun!
Thank you *very* much for the links/pointers, Stephan!
That should help. The hardest part of "maintaining" are the initial steps.
Keeping them going isn't *nearly* as much time/effort. Looks like you've
saved me a little up-front.

Thanks. :-)

--Chris

On an aside; why is most everyone on this list so inclined to "top post"?
It really buggers up the mailing list archives -- breaks all the threads.
Everyone looks like their talking to *themselves*. :-)
> 
> Greetings,
> Stephan
> 
> 
> On 01/20/21 12:51, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---- On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:55:13 +0700 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.
>>   >
>>   > --Chris
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