Re: [ANNOUNCE] GARNOME 2.17.3 -- "do not go gentle into that good night"

[Peter <sw98234 hotmail com>]

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:33:03 +0100, guenther wrote:

snip...
> 
> You are correct in that this is not part of GNOME. However, the GNOME
> dependencies are part of the official release set as well, and includes
> the particularly "blessed" versions.

Where are these dependencies listed?
> 
> Also note that live.gnome.org is a wiki -- don't trust it
> unconditionally, especially concerning being up-to-date to the minute.
> That's what we are for. ;)
> 

Now that explains it all. But, as I asked, isn't there a definitive
document that outlines requirements?

> 
> Hope, this explains things...
> 

Yes. As Jos. will tell you, I make a lot of modifications to garnome and
indeed leave out large parts of it while compiling more and more into
packages for my system. My goal is to integrate garnome into my system,
not have it duplicate libraries here and there. And yes, I fully
understand all the risks! It's just that for me, I only use a few gnome
apps and do not use the gnome desktop, so having the whole desktop and wm
available for me is overkill.

Unfortunately, for gnome, it does not have a build paradigm like kde
does, so it's a lot more work. I can't imagine how much time you guys
spent trying to set up garnome!

For me, setting up gnome-platform only took two days. The desktop apps are
much more time consuming. Hopefully, once set up, I will only have to
update a few packages here and there when versions increment.

PITA and risky and certainly not pretty!

-- 
Peter