On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:49, Murray.Cumming@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > You are talking about the requirements of yourself as a user, and I suggest > that you express your requirements to gentoo. Wherever did I suggest my requirements? I'll requote the closing paragraph to that last email since I'm certain you failed to read it: "Is it me, or is this list starting to get big? That looks almost unmanageable [for anybody, Gnome devs and distro chiefs alike] - but if it were broken down into separate meta packages... Actually, it [partly] is - gnome-desktop, gnome-games - and I'm just suggesting that this could be taken further in order to simplify things from an outside perspective as well as an internal one." You are forming a successful argument by dodging the original question and defining a new one better suited to your perspective. (You don't practise law, by any chance?) The question was not, "who is responsible for getting Gnome to the user?" We all know the answer to that one already! The question was, "would extra organisation and structure in the form of subcategories / subpackages (think of it as departmental) be beneficial to Gnome and hence to Gnome users?" As a benign Gnome user who doesn't mind if a little extra puppy fat gets installed, my requirements are that my distribution installs Gnome successfully. That is not what I'm getting at otherwise I'd be moaning on the Gentoo lists. When I started looking at Gnome Office, obviously I was forced to look at Gnome. Looking at Gnome is like looking at a giant stirring pot, a cauldron if you like. Lots of things smushed together, stirred around, making a fantastic potion. I'm asking if there is any merit to using lots of smaller cauldrons instead of one big one, because it might be easier to manage the smaller ones through delegation than it is by having lots of people stirring in on a big pot. Gotta love terrible analogies. - Charlie -- Charles Goodwin <charlie@xxxxxxx> XWT Foundation - www.xwt.org _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
