DragonFly GNOME and KDE4 meta packages

[Tomas Bodzar]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:31 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/
>> 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
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>> 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/
>> 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/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.

http://openports.se/meta/gnome

Latest version from 18.10.2012 including Gnome Shell.

>
> 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