Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE needs help with maintaince of xfce-extra/ (at least temporary)

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/14/2012 06:17 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> so unless you are willing to go that far as introducing yourself at the >> xfce devel mailing list and accepting the mantle of upstream of them, we >> are really stuck at this distribution level patching just like others > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE needs help with maintaince of xfce-extra/ (at least temporary)

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Samuli Suominen wrote: > so unless you are willing to go that far as introducing yourself at the > xfce devel mailing list and accepting the mantle of upstream of them, we > are really stuck at this distribution level patching just like others That makes no sense to me. If you (not you specifica

Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE needs help with maintaince of xfce-extra/ (at least temporary)

2012-11-14 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 14/11/12 12:36, Peter Stuge wrote: It also means that if I had strong interest in XFCE then I would work on getting patches from other distribution upstream, so that Gentoo did not need to have any patches at all. I also want to clarify that *everything* we have for XFCE in gentoo-x86 now *

Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE needs help with maintaince of xfce-extra/ (at least temporary)

2012-11-14 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 14/11/12 12:36, Peter Stuge wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: I'm just afraid our XFCE port gets lagged behind because of this as compared to other distros ... I am, as you know, a strong proponent of doing things right, rather than doing them fast. In this case that means that it is not the e

Re: [gentoo-dev] XFCE needs help with maintaince of xfce-extra/ (at least temporary)

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Samuli Suominen wrote: > I'm just afraid our XFCE port gets lagged behind because of this as > compared to other distros ... I am, as you know, a strong proponent of doing things right, rather than doing them fast. In this case that means that it is not the end of the world if Gentoo ebuilds do

[gentoo-dev] XFCE needs help with maintaince of xfce-extra/ (at least temporary)

2012-11-14 Thread Samuli Suominen
Everything printed by ... http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/xfce-base/libxfcegui4 ... if not fixed already by an ~arch version needs a patch that ports it from libxfcegui4 to libxfce4ui These patches are available mainly at ... http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ (anything submitted