spec.in PATCHES(was: Re: Release Team: XFce4 SRPM suggestions)

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Sorry to reply so late. Did anyone put this in CVS already?


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
Ric <fhj52ads at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Olivier:
> Hi everybody:
> 
> Hope you (all) have had a good day.  When I first read this
> reply from you, I thought ' How nice that the 'boss' took
> time to respond - and positively, too! '   
> Since getting CVS a few days ago and seeing that the
> "Release Team" has not made any changes to the  *.spec.in 
> files, I re-read this and' ultimately decided that  " Good
> idea. " really means:
> " Good idea. " [ " now would you(if you want to) please go
> do it so that I can concentrate on the other(important)
> stuff. "]
> 
> Okay. :) 
> - Attached. (bzipped tar achive(tar -xjf SPECS_1.tar.bz2 
> to extract) with xfdiff patch files too.)
> 
> *Partially complete*  though cause I am not sure if my
> editing of the (lack of) %descriptions is acceptable at
> this stage(so near RC1) due to translations and what not. 
> Plus, I am putting everything else(except dbh of course)
> into a new subcategory, " Graphical desktop/XFce/Extras ",
> if that is okay.
> 
> Also, xfwm4, xfce4-panel, xfdesktop and xfce-utils are,
> technically,  "extras" but, frankly, personally, I cannot
> imagine running XFce DE without those packages so I put
> them into " Graphical desktop/XFce " as "recommended"
> packages versus "required" or "suggested" packages like the
> rest.
> Also, I would like to put xfce4-session in the base
> category as a 'recommended' but do not know its status for
> XFce4 4.0.0 release plus I will have to make a spec file
> for it as that seems to be missing(RPM hates Benny hates
> RPM :) ) from the 0.21 targz.
> 
> If the additions to the "%descriptions" are not okay at
> this date please let me know ASAP so I can remove them and
> not do any more. If they are okay, I will upload a
> SPEC_2.tar.bz2 with the others category and description
> additions/changes.
> 
> I hope this meets with y'all's approval.
> 
> Please comment/suggest as you desire.
> 
> ================================
> --- Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > Ric,
> > 
> > Good idea.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 22:51, Ric wrote:
> > > Hey y'all:
> > > 
> > > I have noticed that the XFce files get placed into some
> > odd
> > > locations for " Group " in the RPM db categories, as
> > > compared with other similar types of pkgs/files.  I
> > would
> > > like for that to change with XFce4.  These are some
> > > suggestions to change the spec file "Group", where
> > > applicable:
> > > 
> > > I think XFce deserves a category of its own.  I think
> > the
> > > name " XFce " is probably better than using "XFce4" for
> > the
> > > future ease of maintenance, BICBW... 
> > > 
> > > SUGGEST: put XFce4 pkgs in " Graphical desktop/XFce " 
> > > 	--Gnome, Icewm, KDE, WindowMaker, Enlightenment,...
> > are in
> > > " Graphical desktop/<DEname> ";
> > >         --note that there is no "s" and no capital on
> > > 'desktop';
> > > 
> > > SUGGEST: put xfce(4) libraries required for runtime in
> > "
> > > Graphical desktop/XFce " with the other files required
> > for
> > > running it;
> > >          --that seems to be the general way, at least
> > for
> > > Gnome;
> > > 	 --they may need to go with the -devel pkgs so
> > > Development/XFce is an alt. Group suggestion
> > > 
> > > SUGGEST: put xfce(4)-devel pkgs in Development/XFce 
> > > 	--Gnome, Icewm, KDE, GTK+,... are in
> > "Development/<name>";
> > >          
> > > SUGGEST: put dbh in "Databases" (not Database)
> > >         --dbh belongs in "Databases" with the rest of
> > the
> > > database"s" pkgs
> > >            -- the "Database" category was really a
> > > typo/mistake, ithink
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Among other things, those little changes will help
> > finding
> > > the xfce4 files in the rpm db when searching manually
> > thru
> > > a (X) pkg mgr which is sometimes necessary(esp. when
> > one
> > > does not know the name of the file desired). 
> > > I can make a list if you want/need specific file/spec
> > > names.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > WDYT?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for listening.
> > > 
> 
> =====
> Have A Great Day!
> 
> Ric
> ***
> 
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