Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:01:36 +0100 From: Andrew Grillet <andrew@grillet.co.uk> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Problems Message-ID: <200309281401.36103.andrew@grillet.co.uk>
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Hi I have done a CVSup to fetch ports and stable over a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8. When building Gnome (2.4.0) I had problems with gstreamer requiring an old version of gnomeui. 2.00 instead of 2.4. I patched the makefile for gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins, to version 2.4.0 and it now gnome compiles OK (subject to having enough disk space :-) BUT what I want to know is WHY IN GODS NAME DO I HAVE TO SPEND TWO DAYS COMPILING AUDIO STUFF FOR A MACHINE WITH NO SOUND HARDWARE? Surely the default should be that there is no sound support - who needs sound in a business environment? Or do people think it deters their employees surfing porn sites? I think there is a more general problem here: Surely Gnome should not be dependent on things like mozilla - it should integrate them if they are present, but if they aren't. it should not fetch them and compile them - many of us use different applications, or have no need of an equivalent application on machines used for a specific purpose. It is annoying to find the Gui hauls in every application known to the developers. (If its any consellation - I have had the same moan at the KDE team several times :-) regards Andrew regards Andrew
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