It would be nice if portage had a separate category for desktops. Just something like this: x11-desktop/kde (same as kde-base/kde) x11-desktop/gnome (same as gnome-base/gnome) x11-desktop/xfce (same as xfce-base/xfce) This makes it a little easier to see a list of available desktop environments.
this is truly possible with three tier portage, which is not possible (or very hard to implement) in the current portage. we may hopefully see this in portage-ng. in the meantime, i have proposed a similar desktop-* scheme, vs the current mixture between x11-* and app-* for desktop apps, both of which are faily ambiguous imo. so... desktop-wm, desktop-panel, desktop-yourstuff ? i think gnome et all are fine where they are for the time being, but alot of other stuff is poorly (ambiguously?) organized.
Hmm, I'm seeing another point of yours here... Somone new to Linux looks around the Portage tree, they likely have no idea what xfce-base might contain. desktop-env(ironments) or some such container would help this situation. A great example of a similar effort was the app-games move into nicely structured categories, games-*
To me this seems a candidate for LATER resolving. There is no way it can be implemented currently
Nono... i just meant that it would be nice to see it like this: ${PORTAGE}/x11-desktop/gnome/gnome-2.x.ebuild ${PORTAGE}/x11-desktop/kde/kde-3.x.ebuild ${PORTAGE}/x11-desktop/xfce/xfce-4.x.ebuild Moving gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.4.ebuild to x11-desktop/gnome/gnome-2.4.ebuild The other gnome-*; kde-*; xfce-* should be left as they were. I should have clarified myself more...
*** Bug 35859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems stupid to me, but someone marked bug 35859 as a duplicate of this one. So, I'm adding this comment to cover the problem. Please move app-misc/rox and app-misc/rox-session to x11-wm/ and x11-misc/ respectively.
this is none of desktop-misc's buisness... removing from cc... and a three-prong layout seems rather pointless to me, but i'm not on portage team, so ask them
Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and delaying the next version's progress. Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;)