On 15:34 Tue 03 Feb     , Angelo Arrifano wrote:
> We at -embedded would like to introduce GPE - The G Palmtop Environment.

Hi,

Very cool that you've been working on this!

> We currently provide an eclass and ebuilds arranged by top level
> categories following upstream categorization. Explicitly gpe.eclass and
> top level gpe-base gpe-net gpe-pim gpe-games gpe-utils gpe-media
> gpe-xsession.
> We know we have a lot of them but upstream finds useful to classify them
> like that and so do we.

Could you expand on how each new category is useful?

> The eclass and some ebuilds were based on bugzie #101393. We started
> playing with them as big flat gpe-base category which evolved over time
> by means of consecutive testing on ARMv5 handheld devices and needs.
> 
> Since we are maintaining this over half a year now, we think that its
> time to finally starting moving step-by-step the GPE suite into the
> portage tree - starting with the eclass and toplevel categories.

What are the stats on package count per category?

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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