Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:19:54 +1000 From: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> To: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grip, via GNOME, requires Kerberos: what were they thinking? Message-ID: <20080810011953.GA3665@bacardi.frase.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20080809195853.GA29116@panix.com> References: <20080809195853.GA29116@panix.com>
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On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:58:53PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote:
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> I like Grip, a lot. I've ripped gigs and gigs of CDs to FLAC.
>=20
> Unfortunately, it depends on the Tentacular Array named The Gnome
> Project.=20
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> On a brand new install of FreeBSD 7.0, updated today and yesterday,
> Kerberos is required to obtain Grip.
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> AFAICT, according to the Makefile for gnomevfs2, required by Grip,
> there is no "OFF" knob:
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> # $FreeBSD: ports/devel/gnome-vfs/Makefile,v 1.134 2008/06/06 14:33:36
> edwin Exp $
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> .if defined(WITHOUT_KERBEROS)
> @${ECHO_CMD} "${PKGNAME}: KERBEROS is required."
> @${FALSE}
> .endif
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> No ifs, no ands, no buts, and I've lost my grip.
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> There is most certainly not an OFF knob for gnome-vfs.
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> I cannot imagine why a single user desktop must have Kerberos.
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> There is probably no solution beyond sucking it up and rebuilding from
> source to have Kerberos, but this thing called The Gnu Object
> Modelling Environment is just flat bizarre.=20
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> Is there lore for how things end up like this? Maybe a Dilbert
> cartoon?
Have a look at audio/asunder, a lightweight GTK+ CD ripper.
frase
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