Release Team: XFce4 SRPM suggestions

[Olivier Fourdan]

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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Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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