Re: GARNOME-0.18.3/meta/gnome-desktop compiles smoothly and works ok on LFS-4.0

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Krzysztof Gora wrote:
> I understand the main purpose of garnome : testing. But I think that 
> garnome is the fast (probably the fastest)
> and easy (probably the easiest) way of building gnome-2 from sources 
> only, as a 'central' dm also.

I would like to add that Gentoo's emerge does a beautiful job for stable
packages...

> It would be nice (I hope) to implement another set of prefixes in 
> gar.conf.mk to allow installing 'general purpose' libraries (like 
> libxml, pango ..)
> in different location (/usr for example). It would be (more) nice to 
> additionally implement switch which will allow to exlude these libraries
> from dependencies and to use already installed.

Yes, we've been over this. I think what it came down to is that because
GARNOME is intended exclusively as testing, it should never be installed
in /usr. It could easily damage a person's ability to use their computer.
Even if they did not complain here, Jeff doesn't want anyone to think that
Gnome screwed up their computer.

When installed in something like /opt/gnome2 it's safe. The existing
environment is preserved.

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--Pat