Re: Missing libs in Helix

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

> Is there a reason why Bonobo, Oaf and Gconf are omitted from the Helix
> install? 

The helix mailing lists could probably answer the question better,
but I believe the answer is that Bonobo, oaf, and Gconf are not
"released" libraries yet.  The API are changing constantly and they
are still in *heavy* development.  When there is some relative
stability, they will be officially released.  In the meantime, you
certainly can install them yourself and play with them.  When you
install Evolution, e.g. it will install some of those.  Likewise,
Nautilus uses those libraries.  

> I don't even see it in the package list, but at least Bonobo
> and Oaf are supported by Helix. Gconf used to be as of 0.5, but rpmfind
> doesn't show a Helix entry for 0.8. Before I download these and install
> them to my freshly installed Helix-Gnome, are there conflicts that could
> occur? These files are all required by Gnome-DB (another omission from
> Helix-Gnome - strange since virtually all distributions come equiped
> with a database or two and Helix has a ton of other apps). 
> 
> Mike
> 
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