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

[Krzysztof Gora <gora chello pl>]

Pat Suwalski wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Krzysztof Gora wrote:
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> > 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.
> >    
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> I would like to add that Gentoo's emerge does a beautiful job for stable
> packages...
Thanks Pat. My 'step by step' journey with gnome was started a few weeks 
ago (with linux a few months ago), so .. apologies for lack of knowledge.
I start to using Gentoo just now, thanks.

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> > 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.
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> 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.
>  
I see,  I understand. You are right.
I'll be using garnome exlusively for testing and for exploring the 
hottest components of gnome with pleasure. :-)

> When installed in something like /opt/gnome2 it's safe. The existing
> environment is preserved.
>
> Jezeli potrzebujesz pomoc po Polsku, mozesz wyslac mi eMail.
Dzięki, to bardzo miły gest :-)

> --Pat
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Cheers,

Chris