<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:31 PM, John Marino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dragonflybsd@marino.st" target="_blank">dragonflybsd@marino.st</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 10/22/2012 21:04, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:<br>
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Dear All ,<br>
In<br>
<a href="http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-2012Q2/All/" target="_blank">http://mirror-master.<u></u>dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_<u></u>64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-<u></u>2012Q2/All/</a><br>
there is a package "kde-3.5.10.tgz" :<br>
<a href="http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-2012Q2/All/kde-3.5.10.tgz" target="_blank">http://mirror-master.<u></u>dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_<u></u>64/DragonFly-3.1/pkgsrc-<u></u>2012Q2/All/kde-3.5.10.tgz</a><br>
It seems that it is a "meta" package .<br>
As a corresponding package , such a package does NOT exist for GNOME .<br>
Such a package exists in<br>
<a href="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/gnome/README.html" target="_blank">http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/<u></u>pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/meta-<u></u>pkgs/gnome/README.html</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/5.1_2012Q1/All/gnome-2.26.2nb4.tgz" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/<u></u>pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/<u></u>5.1_2012Q1/All/gnome-2.26.<u></u>2nb4.tgz</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/5.1_2012Q2/All/gnome-2.26.2nb4.tgz" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/<u></u>pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/<u></u>5.1_2012Q2/All/gnome-2.26.<u></u>2nb4.tgz</a><br>
Without such a meta package , to install GNOME is difficult : By using<br>
individual packages ,<br>
it fetches the same depending packages many times which shows that some<br>
install tries are redundant but it is<br>
not known which ones .<br>
<br>
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<br>
In<br>
<a href="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All/" target="_blank">http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/<u></u>pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/<u></u>6.0/All/</a><br>
there are the following packages which are missing in DragonFly :<br>
<a href="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All/kde4-4.8.4.tgz" target="_blank">http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/<u></u>pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/<u></u>6.0/All/kde4-4.8.4.tgz</a><br>
<a href="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0/All/k3b-2.0.2nb6.tgz" target="_blank">http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/<u></u>pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/<u></u>6.0/All/k3b-2.0.2nb6.tgz</a><br>
The following points are very important :<br>
(1) K3b-2.0.*.tgz is important for backup requirements<br>
(2) kde 4 is able to save the session on shutdown and<br>
   then restore it on new login<br>
(3) Auto-mount of removable devices><br>
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A meta package only generates if every single package of the meta package is built, I believe. Â On DragonFly, this is the case for KDE3 and KDE4 (normally), but it is not the case for gnome. Â Frankly, I'd consider other desktops, Gnome is getting harder and harder to support each passing month.<br>
<br>
k3b-2.0 has never built. Â Feel free to submit a patch to fix it. Â It was listed in the "top 10 packages to fix" a few months ago.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
John<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br>Unfortunately , at present , my knowledge is NOT sufficient to supply such a patch .<br><br>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 .<br>
<br>In *BSD operating systems , due to non-root user privileges not allowing auto-mount of <br>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 .<br>
<br><br>Other window managers are not saving session on shutdown and restore it on new login ( with respect to my knowledge ) .<br><br>Thank you very much .<br><br>Mehmet Erol Sanliturk<br><br><br><br>