DragonFly GNOME and KDE4 meta packages

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:31 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st>wrote:

> On 10/22/2012 21:04, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
>> Dear All ,
>> In
>> http://mirror-master.**dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_**
>> 64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-**2012Q2/All/<http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-2012Q2/All/>
>> there is a package "kde-3.5.10.tgz" :
>> http://mirror-master.**dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_**
>> 64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-**2012Q2/All/kde-3.5.10.tgz<http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-2012Q2/All/kde-3.5.10.tgz>
>> It seems that it is a "meta" package .
>> As a corresponding package , such a package does NOT exist for GNOME .
>> Such a package exists in
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/**pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/meta-**
>> pkgs/gnome/README.html<http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/gnome/README.html>
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/**pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/**
>> 5.1_2012Q1/All/gnome-2.26.**2nb4.tgz<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/5.1_2012Q1/All/gnome-2.26.2nb4.tgz>
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/**pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/**
>> 5.1_2012Q2/All/gnome-2.26.**2nb4.tgz<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/5.1_2012Q2/All/gnome-2.26.2nb4.tgz>
>> Without such a meta package , to install GNOME is difficult : By using
>> individual packages ,
>> it fetches the same depending packages many times which shows that some
>> install tries are redundant but it is
>> not known which ones .
>>
>> ..............................
>>
>> In
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/**pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/**6.0/All/<http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All/>
>> there are the following packages which are missing in DragonFly :
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/**pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/**
>> 6.0/All/kde4-4.8.4.tgz<http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All/kde4-4.8.4.tgz>
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/**pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/**
>> 6.0/All/k3b-2.0.2nb6.tgz<http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All/k3b-2.0.2nb6.tgz>
>> The following points are very important :
>> (1) K3b-2.0.*.tgz is important for backup requirements
>> (2) kde 4 is able to save the session on shutdown and
>>      then restore it on new login
>> (3) Auto-mount of removable devices>
>>
>
> A meta package only generates if every single package of the meta package
> is built, I believe.  On DragonFly, this is the case for KDE3 and KDE4
> (normally), but it is not the case for gnome.  Frankly, I'd consider other
> desktops, Gnome is getting harder and harder to support each passing month.
>
> k3b-2.0 has never built.  Feel free to submit a patch to fix it.  It was
> listed in the "top 10 packages to fix" a few months ago.
>
> John
>


Unfortunately , at present , my knowledge is NOT sufficient to supply such
a patch .

Actually , for me , KDE4 is much better than GNOME . Personally I am using
KDE4 in Linux because they are mostly supplying the above mentioned 3
facilities on normal install .

In *BSD operating systems , due to non-root user  privileges not allowing
auto-mount of
removable devices and difficulty to set parameters , use of KDE 4 is very
difficult for me when it exists , and when it does not exist in a *BSD ,
that *BSD is not not usable for me .


Other window managers are not saving session on shutdown and restore it on
new login ( with respect to my knowledge ) .

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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