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I decided to give it a try and it is incredibly weird and confusing
It can be a little confusing at first. Its a very powerful and flexible DE/WM. If you love eye candy its the way to go, if you love simplicity but need power ... its good for that too. I have been using it for years. As Frank suggested take a look the links. I have used Bodhi as well and they do a good job with it.
I use E19 on my home machine, now that I've adapted the default theme to something I find a bit more usable. My own other minor grumble would be the Settings Panel; I think there are two many subcategories and perhaps needs a bit of streamlining. It's great having lots of choice but for the non-power user I think it might be easier if you could have some of them at least hidden, but available under, say, an advanced option.
There is a little problem if required packages not coming from SBo (or even softwares not coming from slackware packages) are already installed. They are not detected and maybe installed twice (for example gstreamer1 is already in Alien BOB's kde).
Toutatis, I am using Slackware 14.1 with the latest Alien's KDE and it doesn't ship gstreamer
Code:
pedro@slack:~$ ls /var/log/packages/ | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-0.10.36-i486-2
gstreamer1-1.4.1-i486-1_SBo
phonon-gstreamer-4.6.3-i486-1
qt-gstreamer-0.10.3-i486-1alien
Those are new packages in my latest KDE set, and you need to install those explicitly using "installpkg" or "upgradepkg --install-new".
If you use the slackpkg+ extension for slackpkg, then you can run "slackpkg install ktown" if "ktown" is the name of my repository in slackpkgplus.conf.
There is a little problem if required packages not coming from SBo (or even softwares not coming from slackware packages) are already installed. They are not detected and maybe installed twice (for example gstreamer1 is already in Alien BOB's kde).
Thanks for the report! I originally had an `ls` check in there, guess I didn't think of that. I have rewritten the sbopkg function so that this shouldn't happen anymore:
Code:
sbo_pkg_install() {
SBO_PACKAGE=$1
if [ ! -e /var/log/packages/$SBO_PACKAGE-* ]; then
sbopkg -B -i $SBO_PACKAGE
fi
}
Go ahead and run a `git pull` if you already have the repo.
I have one minor complaint, although, I think this is a limitation of sbopkg rather than your build script. If you have run sqg -a with SKIP_EMPTY uncommented at some point, you have queue files for each package, which requires answering p for package or q for queue file on each dependency from sbopkg.
Code:
Both a queuefile and a package were found with the name "gstreamer1".
Use (Q)ueuefile, (P)ackage, or (A)bort?:
I did a quick look at the --help of sbopkg, and it seems there is no option to specify which you'd prefer.
I'm wondering if a better option is to pass a queue file directly to sbopkg, although, I suppose that could cause redundant builds if someone already has the program installed.
Maybe it's worth it for me to bring these limitations of sbopkg to the developer...
As to e19, I'll let you know when it's done building and I have a chance to play around with it
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