A normal user doesn't install 50 themes, install maybe 5 themes? about 100kb per theme? 500kb of waste space per user, not too much, now think how many kb wsate all the themes ebuilds, digest, etc and how much time it take to sync.
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:11:00 -0400 (EDT) "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wastes space. Why would you want to install a theme several times > for each user when you can just install it once and have everyone use it? > > Michael Sterrett > -Mr. Bones.- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote: > > > I have another proposal... remove all themes from portage. We only need > > ebuild og gtk-engines and similar. Themes don't need a build system or are > > complex to install. Any user can go to www.X-theme.org watch the > > screenshot, download the theme and install it. > > We must mantain ebuild of themes that need a build system or complex > > operations (again gtk-engines). > > > > I did it some similar with ebook-ebuilds. I removed all ebook-ebuild from > > portage and create an user script to download and install them. > > > > Regards > > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:12:24 +0200 > > Simon Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so: > >> > >> INTRO: > >> I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, > >> but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when > >> creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess > >> in theme packages. They are both in media-gfx and x11-themes, they are > >> named without any convention. > >> > >> PROPOSAL: > >> 1) create a new directory in portage root eye-candy [or similar] > >> 2) move all theme packages in there > >> 3) follow the naming convention: [application]-[type]-[name] (for gentoo > >> cursors this would be x11-cursors-gentoo, or for kdm theme tux mania it > >> would be kdm-theme-tuxmania) > >> 4) keep original packages as meta packages with notice, that users > >> should upgrade > >> > >> -- > >> Bc. Simon Toth > >> www.fi.muni.cz/~xtoth1/ > >> > >> > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
