Re: GNOME 2.0 Desktop 'Alpha' Release

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 12:29, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 09:02, Matthew J. Doller wrote:
> > > > And alpha isn't just for developers either. It is definately for everybody
> > > > to download (we are going to get binary packages as promised, right?) and
> > > > give it a test.
> > >
> > > if binary rpms are made available, would it be possible to have them be
> > > relocatable?  if i'm going to install an alpha of gnome2, i'd like it to
> > > go into /opt, or /opt/gnome2
> > 
> > Well, theoretically, the RPMS are relocatable.  However, since there are
> > current docs on relocating RPMs, these aren't tested.  If you want to
> > test this feel free, and let me know where things break, and I'll see
> > what I can fix.
> > 	Greg
> 
> Unfortunately, we compile the location a program is installed into in
> libgnome, meaning that RPM is unrelocatable, even if the files are.

i umm thought this was supposed to be fixed in gnome 2.

jacob
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