[Bug 154265] - garnome deps

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154265
GARNOME | general | Ver: unspecified

pd cipherfunk org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NOTGNOME



------- Additional Comments From pd cipherfunk org  2004-10-04 21:58 -------
Marking this as NOTGNOME.

* For a start - GARNOME users are expected to have a 'sane' build tree *before*
they begin the compile process. This build setup needs to contain binutils,
make, a compiler -- as well as things that are inherently important to building
anything from tarballs, bzip2, wget and a working X server are all examples of this.

* Secondly, there's _no_ way i'm even going to attempt shipping critical system
files in bootstrap/ -- imagine what sort of maintainence nightmare GARNOME could
have if we started shipping X, kernels and compilers as part of the tarball.

The purpose of bootstrap/ is to build apps that are either:

* essential to the building of GNOME, and not available as packages for your
_average_ distribution type.

* version-number specific (eg. Mozilla)

GARNOME is about building GNOME -- not about building a complete development
environment, if you want that -- why not use LFS (Linux From Scratch)

Having said that, there are some packages above that have some merit,
libgpg-error, for example - is difficult to find working RPMs for, so if there
was demand, i'd probably add it.

zlib, on the other hand -- is a staple part of any system with a development
environment installed.

C.J., if you would like to help Bob keep his dependency list up-to-date, i'd be
happy to add a more exhaustive list of dependencies to the GARNOME FAQ and
written documentation, but GNOME's bugzilla is _not_ the place for this.


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