suggestion on improving the build-process

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo stud ntnu no>]

I'm using garnome to build GNOME 2.8 on Slackware. When using garnome, the
build process is often halted when some dependency is not met.
Since the build process typically takes a many hours to complete,
such interruptions during the build process means that I can't just start
building, and come back when the build is complete.

There are severeal ways to improve this situation, (I'm sure someone are
aware of others?): Fixing the dependencies before the build-process is
one. Another is, if a compile-error is detected, to continue building
other garnome packages if the package which failed was not "mandatory" by
some definition. Garnome could still produce a working GNOME-system, even
if for example GnomeMeeting is not compiled. (no offence to gnomemeeting
:) At the end of the garnome build, I could then decide if I want to go
back and fix the remaining build errors.

Some kind of improvement like this, would make me like garnome even more!

Andreas Røsdal