Release Team: XFce4 SRPM suggestions

Ric fhj52ads at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 21 22:51:17 CEST 2003


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.




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Ric
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