Re: CVS question

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    Soren> Go ahead and uninstall everything if you aren't so attached
    Soren> to GNOME that you've gotta have it running next time you
    Soren> start X.  As I've said before to other people, anything old
    Soren> enough to have a version number is probably too out of date
    Soren> to be worth lying around your system if you want to keep up
    Soren> with GNOME.  CVS really isn't too difficult to get working
    Soren> (though you might have problems with libgtop over the next
    Soren> few days until Martin finishes the new version -- get the
    Soren> tarballs if it doesn't work).

Soren and others,

There's a problem with the advice of uninstalling everything that
comes with Red Hat: if you want to runt he GIMP, you cannot uninstall
gtk+ and friends.

I don't know how many GNOME people want to also grab the GIMP out of
CVS or out of sources.

I think it's best to just make a /opt/gnome hierarchy and do the right
thing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH, LIBRARY_PATH and PATH so
that /opt/gnome/{bin,include,lib} is referenced before
/usr/{bin,include,lib}