Re: ftp://...platform and ftp://...desktop logic

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I try to compile gnome from scratch and I downloaded all packages (bz2) 
> from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.12/2.12.2/sources/ .
> However, libbonoboui depends on bonobo-activation and libgnomeui 
> depends on gnome-keyring, found in 
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/.. This means that ...platform.. 
> depends on ...desktop.. and vise versa. To what I understand from 
> software grouping this was not the original idea. Am I right?

Yes, this is true -- and has been like this for quite a long time at
least.

FWIW, this are not circular dependencies. Some platform packages depend
on desktop ones, so you just need to build them as deps. *sigh*


Unless you really want to build *manually* from source, I'd recommend
using a build tool that automatically resolves those dependencies for
you and even cares about downloading the packages -- like GARNOME. :-)

  http://gnome.org/projects/garnome/

Hint: Since you already downloaded the tarballs (the smaller bz2 ones I
hope), set GARCHIVEDIR in gar.conf.mk.

...guenther


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