RE: CVS GNOME

["Chris Jones" <chris black-sun co uk>]

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Hi

> Nah, you pretty much have to delete the RPMs.

I figured as much.
  
> /usr without using RPM, you'll end up with a giant mess and no way
to
> separate the GNOME stuff from everything else on your system in
order to
> uninstall it.

I'm beginning to wish I had installed GNOME from source so I could
have specified where it should live. It does seem to be spread fairly
randomly over the system. I should probably remove the RPMs, nuke
anything related to GNOME and re-install the whole lot, but I don't
really want to disrupt my system for that long.
 
> Yes, CVS is like that. :-) It really _isn't_ recommended if you
don't plan
> to do development; we can and will break it and wreck your whole
> environment. (We will try not to, but it's inevitable during
development
> cycles.)

Just so you don't think I'm a doofus, I am vaguely familiar with
grabbing things from CVS and I was expecting stuff to be broken (in
fact, I was impressed with the amount of stuff that wasn't broken!)
 
> This is standard and correct behavior. (Again, if you don't know
about
> makefiles and development, expect CVS to burn you really badly - not
> recommended.)

I'm not experienced with them, but I know my way around them, so I
didn't walk into this totally blind ;)

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