Xfce4-4.4 beta1 PKGBUILD and ask for testing

Question

Hi,
I used my day off to move our xfce to the beta1 aka 4.3.90.1.
Note that this stuff is far from perfect. Some modules moved
into the xfce4 core packages some plugins are new some not
updated yet, some have been abandoned and finally some are
broken. I have no packages ready, but two directories of
PKGBUILDs that *are supposed* to be able to be build by
makeworld. SO anybody feeling adventurous, share your woes.
http://arch.justdreams.net/xfce4-4.4-beta1/
The tarball is the content of the whole directory bundled. To
build this stuff follow this path:
$ > su
$ > pacman -R xfce4 xfce4-goodies
$ > pacman -S a2ps cups dbh dbus gconf libxdamage libxpm libxcomposite dbus vte shared-mime-info libexif fam libglade libsigc++2.0 lm_sensors gnome-panel taglib
$ > abs
$ > cd $ABSROOT/extra
$ > rm -rf xfce4
copy the two directries xfce4-core and xfce4-goodies to $ABSROOT/extra
$ > cd $ABSROOT/extra
$ > makeworld -bci /path/to/final/packages xfce4-core xfce4-goodies
xfce4-xmms2-client is in broken. It builds but it doesnt start
successfully. So far it's the only package using xfc. So if you
don't plan to try this stuff just delete xfce4-goodies/xfc. To
build takes for ever.
NOTE: the strange dependencies above come from:
shared-mime-info libexif fam gconf: thunar
libglade libsigc++2.0: xfc
gnome-panel: xfce4-xfapllet-plugin (allows to run gnome-applets from xfce4-panel)
taglib: thunar-media-tag-plugin
Try it and lemme know your worries.
Thanks,
   neri

Answer 1

Ok, I've into into the difference between our work. Here is what I can say:
+Packages are quite the same, wich is normal.
+My packages did lacks some keywords, like the options=('NOLIBTOOL'), and 2 or 3things like that
+Here some remark about your packages:
     -Most of the dependencies doesn't mention version numbers.*
     - Some of them doesn't feature md5sums*
     - For the panel, you can drop the xml2 dependency, since the new panel doesn't need this anymore.
     - For xfce4-ssesion, I use this arguments for the ./configure:
./configure --prefix=/opt/xfce4 --disable-legacy-sm --disable-gnome --with-shutdown-style=hal
The last argument can probably be omited, but I would like the keep the other.
     - For the quicklauncher plugin, the comment say that it can display 4 launchers... This is false. In fact it can display as many launchers as you want. (sorry, but I'm the author of this plugin, so I can't do without mention it    )
*Here is what I have for the dependecies and md5sums after "merging" our packages:
[libxfce4mcs]
+depends=('libxfce4util>=4.3.99.1' 'startup-notification')
[libxfce4util]
+depends=('glib2>=2.6.0')
#the dependency is in fact about gobject-2.6.0
[libxfcegui4]
-depends=('startup-notification' 'gtk2>=2.6.0' 'libxfce4util>=4.3.99.1')
[terminal]
-depends=('exo>=0.3.1.10rc1' 'vte>=0.11.11' 'dbus>=0.60')
[xfce-mcs-plugins]
-depends=('xfce-mcs-manager>=4.3.99.1' 'gtk-xfce-engine>=2.3.99.1' 'libxfcegui4>=4.3.99.1' 'libxfce4mcs>=4.3.99.1'
-         'libxxf86vm')
[xfce4-dev-tools]
+md5sums=('dc6403caf82edfb896eb3878385b439a')
[xfce4-panel]
-depends=('libxfcegui4>=4.3.99.1' 'libxfce4mcs>=4.3.99.1')
+md5sums=('8647de295987605161c75650e4554fd8')
[xfce4-session]
+depends=('libxfcegui4' 'libxfce4mcs' 'bash' 'hal')
+  ./configure --prefix=/opt/xfce4 --disable-legacy-sm --disable-gnome --with-shutdown-style=hal
[xfwm4]
+md5sums=('ab8fcfdf496f093bbe711a7d853deb33' '8ed0d3c7dc07dde88ba7b38ce5006730')