Re: Themes (again)

[Xavier Brochard]

On 2013-09-27 17:48:22 +0200 Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 September 2013 16:21, Xavier Brochard <xavier@alternatif.org> 
> wrote:
> > I mean "like others do" :  release a set of tarball files and a few
> > instructions to setup.
>
> *Tarballs*? Seriously?!
>
> No. Not tarballs. That is the last thing that we want to be doing. Not
> in 2013. In 1993, yes; in 1998, maybe.

it is what other successfull desktop project do (kde, gnome, xfce, 
...).

> No, any current distro has package management, automatic dependency
> resolution, etc. This helps, and tarballs completely break it and
> leave a distro that cannot be upgraded or even maintained.

tarballs are for packagers, not for end users

> With modest work, it is possible to produce packages that will install
> on both Ubuntu and Debian - that would be best of all.

yes, see phillippe's packages.

> > This would be the first step. That would allow a desktop to be setup 
> > by
> > tweaking current installations done with packages from distribs.
>
> So would actual distro packages.

No. What is missing is a list of things to install (there is no 
gnustep-desktop package with dependencies) and instructions to setup. 
Second step would be to automate this.

xavier