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

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 20.01.21 um 21:47 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss:
> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for
> making...:
>
>> On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for
>>> making...:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> You might want to review the mailing list archives for this mailing
>>> list
>>> to get a clearer understanding of why that is.  It's been discussed
>>> before.
>>>
>>> If you or Chris or someone else builds an entire desktop environment
>>> like Cinnamon and publishes a repo that is kept up to date, I would
>>> definitely give it a try, at least in a VM.  If someone does this and
>>> keeps it up to date for a long time and continues to contribute to OI,
>>> I would probably use that as my main desktop environment.
>>>
>>> Just building it once, without a commitment to keeping it updated,
>>> isn't
>>> good for anyone, though.
>> TBH The only reason OI isn't my "daily driver" is the DE available. If I
>> had XFCE (what I currently use), or better, Cinnamon. I'd have a hard
>> time
>> not using OI. Overall I like it better. But I'm (currently) pretty well
>> committed to FreeBSD as maintainer of some 160 ports, and I create
>> installs for all my servers && clients. I've been on BSD since Bill Joy
>> forked 386BSD, and hacked on various NIX' before that. But if I could
>> cobble up an OI I could justify as a "daily driver", and something I
>> could
>> recommend to my clients. I'd make the switch.
>> Which brings me to why I initiated this thread. Since I need commitment
>> to justfy *my* commitment. I thought I'd send out a "feeler" to see if
>> there was any interest. Appears I'm not the only one. So I'm going to
>> "take the plunge". I'll start gathering all the information I need to
>> get
>> all the dots in a line, so I can start production. Any pointers to help
>> shorten the trajectory would be *greatly* appreciated. As well as
>> keeping
>> the wiki working. ;-)
>
> I'm indifferent to Xfce, but when you start working on Cinnamon and deps,
> that's something that I would be happy to collaborate on and test. 
> oi-dev
> and the irc channels are your best source for help on porting, and I've
> gotten good feedback in PRs where I've asked questions or been stuck
> part way through updating or porting a package.
>
> Also, rather than the wiki, I would highly recommend
>
>     http://docs.openindiana.org/
>
> and then "HandBook->Building with oi-userland".  That's been migrated
> from
> the old wiki page and updated and had some corrections and a few
> clarifications added.  There may still be improvements that could be
> made, so the first few times through the process, please pay special
> attention
> to places where that document misses information or appears
> incorrect.  If
> you mention the issues on oi-dev, I'll get PRs submitted (or you can,
> if you fork the docs too) to try improve things.
>
> Tim
I will happily merge enhancements to oi-docs.
And one more thing: We share the Sun Solaris ancestry with Oracle
Solaris. Some things have diverted during the last decade but the
solaris-userland
repository is a first-class source of information and inspiration.

Andreas