Is GNOME a possibility?

[lmello]

Everybody can feel free to package Gnome and we'll happily put it to our repo

From LFS: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... /core.html, to have a minimal working GNOME desktop, we must have:

# Platform
ORBit2-2.14.19 !
libbonobo-2.24.3 !
GConf-2.28.1 !
shared-mime-info-0.70 !
gnome-mime-data-2.18.0 !
hicolor-icon-theme-0.12 !
desktop-file-utils-0.17 !
gnome-vfs-2.24.4 !
libgnome-2.30.0 !
libgnomecanvas-2.30.1 !
libbonoboui-2.24.3 !
libgnomeui-2.24.3 !
# Desktop
libgnome-keyring-2.30.1 !
gnome-keyring-2.30.3 !
gtk-engines-2.20.1 !
gnome-themes-2.30.2
gnome-doc-utils-0.20.2 ! (it's part of linuxdoc-tools)
gnome-desktop-2.30.2
gnome-backgrounds-2.30.0
gnome-menus-2.30.2
libgweather-2.30.2
gnome-panel-2.30.2
vte-0.24.2 !
gnome-terminal-2.30.2
libgtop-2.28.1
libgnomekbd-2.30.1
nautilus-2.30.1 [1]
gvfs-1.6.2 !
gnome-settings-daemon-2.30.2
zenity-2.30.0 !
metacity *
gnome-control-center-2.30.1 [1]
gnome-icon-theme-2.30.3 !
gnome-applets-2.30.0 [2]
gnome-session-2.30.2
yelp-2.30.1
gnome-user-docs-2.30.1

I marked with an "!" all the packages already available in the Slackware and Salix repos.

So we're missing 'only' 17 packages to have a basic Salix GNOME edition!

* Since GNOME can be used with other window managers, the folks at LFS didn't put metacity on the list

[1] - you MUST pass "--disable-update-mimedb" to the configure script or else you'll break your system.
[2] - I couldn't build this on current. This happens:

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./configure: line 366: test: please: integer expression expected
configure: error: install

Does anybody has a patch for this?

[pwatk]

I was considering picking this up but I'm really trying to get back in to a networking project I started before getting the packaging bug.

It would be nice to have a gnome edition though so if we're still no where near it in a few months (and there's still enough interest) then I might lend a hand in the packaging.

[lmello]

I was considering picking this up but I'm really trying to get back in to a networking project I started before getting the packaging bug.

It would be nice to have a gnome edition though so if we're still no where near it in a few months (and there's still enough interest) then I might lend a hand in the packaging.

I'm building the packages, so far I've made:
gnome-backgrounds
gnome-desktop
gnome-doc-utils
gnome-menus
gnome-panel
gnome-terminal
gnome-themes

The problem is that Salix-current is installed in a very unreliable notebook - it heats so much that it hangs from time to time!

edit - I'm building from a vbox in my desktop computer, it's fine now.

edit2 - I've built everything but gnome-applets.

[thenktor]

Install it in a VirtualBox. I have 2 salix-current VirtualBoxes for packaging: i486 and x86_64

[pwatk]

I didn't realise this until until recently but gnome-doc-utils is part of linuxdoc-tools which is already in the Slackware repository.

[lmello]

I didn't realise this until until recently but gnome-doc-utils is part of linuxdoc-tools which is already in the Slackware repository.

and gnome-themes contains the themes from gtk-engines plus high-contrast ones to aid visually impaired people. Should I remove Clearlooks, Crux, Mist, etc from the package? There's apparently no conflict if I install both gtk-engines and gnome-themes.

[pwatk]

I would check the files in both packages, if the gnome-themes package is going to clobber files from the gtk-engines package then I'd either remove the offending files or start a discussion on the mailing list.

[lmello]

I would check the files in both packages, if the gnome-themes package is going to clobber files from the gtk-engines package then I'd either remove the offending files or start a discussion on the mailing list.

Well, linuxdoc-tools occupies about 40Mb, while gnome-doc-tools occupies only 3,5Mb... I'm comparing the /var/log/packages/${package} and it appears that linuxdoc-tools contains gnome-doc-tools entirely. So packages that depend upon then should get the .dep file like this:

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gnome-doc-tools|linuxdoc-tools

And hopefully we won't get any clashes...

[pwatk]

True, I just thought I'd make you aware!

[gapan]

The point is that there is no need for a separate gnome-doc-utils package.

Also, I'm quite certain that the gtk-engines and gnome-themes packages don't conflict in any way.