Re: The need for an official GNUstep desktop

[Markus Hitter]

Am 27.08.2006 um 21:23 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:

> Up until now we've had 4 or 5 projects playing at being the  
> official desktop in an effort to fill the void.

Yepp. And looking at NeXTbuntu and MidnightBSD, even full OS releases  
appear to be in fashion right now.

What I do not understand is, what's wrong with all the various  
package managers each distro has? Instead of putting up an entire  
Linux or BSD fork, creating or refining packages in each native  
package mananger for GNUstep would be the most straightforward thing  
to do, IMHO.

One package for -make, -base, each app, and so on. Plus a meta- 
package for getting a full runtime-environment, a full development  
environment and a full desktop environment. The latter should allow  
to get rid of any other graphical environment (KDE, Gnome, maybe even  
X), without hosing GNUstep's workings. *snap* there you have your  
GNUstep distro (of course it's not developed by a snap but for the  
user it could/should be).


Markus

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