<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. 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.<br>
<br>
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.<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>