Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Sergio Brandano wrote:
> >Maybe I should have been more clear about step 2:
> >
> >  In csh:
> >	% setenv INTLLIBS '-L/usr/local/lib -lintl'
> >	% ./configure --prefix=/sw/gnu
> 
>  Thank you ...
> 
>  Things would be much easier if GNOME were distributed
>  (and installed) like X11.

What, as a huge monolithic spaghetti-code tarball that isn't even tested
on most machines?  That's how X11 is distributed last I checked.  Then
dozens of unrelated organizations, from free projects like XFree86 to
companies like Sun take that code, and try to massage the patches they
made for the previous release into the new release, test it on their
target machines, and release their own tarballs.  Then in XFree86's case,
dozens more unrelated organizations do the same thing over again, and
release tarballs and/or binary packages of it.

What aspect of the X11 distribution system are you suggesting we emulate?

-Gleef

PS: Don't get me started on the mess that is X11 installation!