RE: garnome-2.12.0.1

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Allow me to ask you.  I am not a programmer - obvious by now, isn't
> it?  Among the downloaded tarballs I noticed mono. 

How did you download those tarballs? What command in what directory did
you run?


> How do I prevent the building and installation of it and similar
> packages (how do I know which ones I don't need.  I am just and end
> user.)  FAQ say to simply remove the desired dir from it's
> meta-repository.  But again, which ones?  I would like to save some
> time installing. 

FWIW, mono neither will be downloaded nor built -- if you follow the
instructions in the README.

Running 'make paranoid-install' in the desktop/ directory will build and
install the entire GNOME desktop, including the dependencies you'll
absolutely need. Mono is not part of the Desktop.


If you don't know which applications you won't *need*, then you probably
shouldn't mess with it.

Anyway, if you at least know which apps you don't *want*, try moving
that dir somewhere else. If the build fails, have a close look at the
reason -- if it is one of the app (dir) you moved before, move that dir
back and start the build again. It will pick up where it left off
before.

...guenther


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