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Old 24th May 2013
cray cray is offline
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Default Why is Xfce not updated in NetBSD's pkgsrc

Hi,
The question is in subject. I suppose this is a lack of maintainers?
Because OpenBSD already has Xfce 4.10
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Old 24th May 2013
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I suppose this is a lack of maintainers?
Ultimately the answer would be Yes.

Xfce 4.6 is the current version in NetBSD. One of OpenBSD porters was, and I think still is, on the Xfce development team and had the huge task of working around the "linuxisms" that are finding their way into the latest Desktop environments.
Examples are the sound server: BSD uses sndio Xfce 4.6 used alsa or oss. Xfce 4.8 switched to gstreamer. Gnome has recently made pulseaudio a requirement. The OpenBSD developers had to "route" the output of these newer sound servers to sndio.

Other examples involve automounting devices in the respective filemangers (Thunar/Nautilus).

There is work ongoing to update the Xfce packages in NetBSD

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Old 25th May 2013
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I see, thanks for the answer.
I have installed Xfce 4.8 from pkgsrc wip, works fine.
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Old 17th May 2015
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With the following commit:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc...msg122907.html

the latest xfce 4.12 was merged with pkgsrc-current and it has new maintainer.
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Old 19th May 2015
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One of OpenBSD porters was, and I think still is, on the Xfce development team and had the huge task of working around the "linuxisms" that are finding their way into the latest Desktop environments.
Examples are the sound server: BSD uses sndio Xfce 4.6 used alsa or oss. Xfce 4.8 switched to gstreamer. Gnome has recently made pulseaudio a requirement. The OpenBSD developers had to "route" the output of these newer sound servers to sndio.

Other examples involve automounting devices in the respective filemangers (Thunar/Nautilus).
That person would be landry@ (he is both OpenBSD and Xfce upstream... as well as Mozilla upstream!)
I don't think the task, for Xfce, is anywhere near as "huge" as you make it sound. Not to say his work isn't appreciated, but Xfce is much better for portability than others.

FWIW, OpenBSD also has upstream Gnome developers (hence why Gnome3 is updated so fast).
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Old 19th May 2015
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That person would be landry@ (he is both OpenBSD and Xfce upstream...)
The same applies for NetBSD, xfce was prepared by a coming new committer in NetBSD and as far as I know soon committer in XFCE.

However more BSD developers in upstream desktop projects is always welcome!
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