Upstream has started on a standalone version of hamster that's not tied to gnome. On an XFCE desktop that's nice to have. Diff to latest ebuild in tree is attached. The live ebuild itself is in my "sping" overlay: http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=overlay-sping.git;a=tree;f=gnome-extra/hamster-applet
Created attachment 222615 [details, diff] Diff from 2.28.2 to 9999 ebuild
We don't add live ebuilds to portage; we keep them in a separate overlay called gnome-live[1]. Incidentally, hamster-applet is indeed in that overlay[2]. When is this hamster-standalone going to make it to a release? 1. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome-live.git 2. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome-live.git;a=blob;f=gnome-extra/hamster-applet/hamster-applet-9999.ebuild;hb=HEAD
(In reply to comment #2) > We don't add live ebuilds to portage; we keep them in a separate overlay called > gnome-live[1]. Is that a good idea? You have to duplicate patches and the two diverge very easily. Also, in the main tree I would have found it. > Incidentally, hamster-applet is indeed in that overlay[2]. Have you checked the difference between our ebuilds? They are not identical. > When is this hamster-standalone going to make it to a release? No idea. > 1. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome-live.git Why is that overlay not registered to layman? Please send the information needed to add overlays@g.o.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > We don't add live ebuilds to portage; we keep them in a separate overlay called > > gnome-live[1]. > > Is that a good idea? You have to duplicate patches and the two diverge very > easily. Also, in the main tree I would have found it. > We have a policy of not patching the live overlay at all (except for gentoo-specific patches). People who use the overlay do so at their own risk; hence there's no question of divergence. Besides, this is not a gnome-herd specific policy; it's a basic gentoo policy; one that is even documented in the quizzes. > > > Incidentally, hamster-applet is indeed in that overlay[2]. > > Have you checked the difference between our ebuilds? > They are not identical. > They are equivalent. Besides the addition of the pyxdg dependency and removal of keywords, I see no difference. > > When is this hamster-standalone going to make it to a release? > > No idea. > Well, this is not going to make it to tree unless there's a release, or someone in the gnome herd disagrees with me and adds a snapshot. > > 1. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome-live.git > > Why is that overlay not registered to layman? > Please send the information needed to add overlays@g.o. > We don't add it to layman because it's not even vaguely in the realm of being "supported". OTOH, I have no objections if someone wants to add it to layman as "experimental".
For the record: - met in IRC with nirbheek - gnome-live is now in layman - dependencies were added - my view on live ebuilds is non-standard
Addendum: this will be added to CVS when 2.30 is released; closing as LATER for now.
reopening
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 313037 ***
