On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 11:39 +0000, Derek Rafter wrote:
> What about "desktop-extras" or "desktop-other" ?
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 06:48 -0800, Hugh O'Hare wrote:
> I'd more or less go along the lines of what Derek proposed, something
> simple which makes the function of the repository clear.
>
> As for the actual naming I don't think "extra" is accurate in the
> context of the overall desktop becasue to me that gives a stronger
> than desired leaning towards "optional", which is not really the
> situation in terms of having full desktop functionality. Additionally
> there is a partial naming conflict with SFE.
>
> "desktop-other" or "desktop-additional" seem more logical for loose
> depenedency where specific applications will not be present if
> omitted, or "desktop-other-required" or "desktop-additional-required"
> for strong dependencies where build/runtime dependencies exist.
Hmm... my problem with these is that most of these packages
won't be desktop related at all. Examples of what we're planning
to move to the new repo are Python, perl-xml-parser, libpopt.
Thinking more about this, though, how about leaving these in
spec-files and creating a new repo for GNOME? (Is there a way
to do that without losing svn history?) So we would have
spec-files-gnome and spec-files.
Another thing I was thinking about was how to organise the new
repository. If we are going to have lots of new spec files,
we really should sort things into subdirs rather than
dumping everything in the root dir. So maybe we should have
something like
spec-files/python/ -- python itself and python modules
spec-files/libs/graphics -- png, tiff, jpg, etc.
libs/codecs -- speex, theora, etc
spec-files/perl -- perl modules
spec-files/apps/internet -- xchat, etc
spec-files/apps/graphics -- inkscape, etc
Laca
