Re: General GNOME User docs
- From: Kevin Breit <battery841 mypad com>
- To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>
- Cc: "'Kevin Breit'" <battery841 mypad com>,Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>,GDP <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: General GNOME User docs
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:13:48 -0500
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:05:57PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I have some political objections to this. Linux is NOT the only OS that
> GNOME runs on. Right this instant, it's probably bigger than all of the
> others combined, but shipping GNOME with Solaris et al has the potential to
> change that. I doubt that anything else will weight in as heavily as Linux,
> but they can certainly make it so that Linux has less than 50% of the GNOME
> desktops. I think we should leave this up to the people who actually
> distribute GNOME, so that they can include one that's specific for their
> operating environment. SGI can include one for IRIX, Sun one for Solaris,
> Debian one for Debian, RedHat one for RedHat. Comments?
Understanded, and agreed. Is there a way that we can have the configure
script to check the OS and then install it or not depending on the OS?
Something like that would be quite nice I think.
Kevin
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