RE: Base to Build From

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Ed Robitaille [mailto:erobitaille eagle1st com] 
> I have been running gnome 1.? from SuSE 7.3 for several 
> years. It seems
> that most of the software that is now being  written is for Gnome2. I
> decided that it was time to migrate to Gnome2. Someone recommended
> garnome to me.
> It has been a frustrating experience. Garnome is not for a novice.

Garnome is for testing. Installing new distros is for novices.

> I fully endorse the premise that it will supply the 'latest bleeding 
> edge' of gnome. In reading the mail archives, and from personal
> experience, there appears to be a  continuing problems with not having
> correect versions of xrender, docbook, gcc and so on.
> 
> I see from the site garnome has been aprogression of updates. 

You don't need an old version of garnome to run a new version of garnome.

> I suppose
> could start from the beginning and just keep updating until I 
> am current
> (yeah). On a dial up connection I'll probably die of old age befors
> I get current.
> 
> I would hazard to make an assumption that there probably 
> agoodly number
> of people stepping into the middle of an on-going project. I 
> see a need
> for list of base packages (libs, compilers, includes) that 
> are known to 
> work with the current version of garnome down loaded.

garnome probably does work best with recent versions of distros.

> I see a step in
> the rigth direction with the bootstrap directory.
> 
> I'm trying to compile garnome 0.24.2.
> 
> Any help woild be appreciated.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
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