Re: General GNOME User docs



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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