Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> From: 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!

And not all of us want all of Gnome (disk space, won't use all the
features, etc.).  I'm much happier downloading the tarballs I want and
installing just those.

Dave