Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:17:56 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: andrew@grillet.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems Message-ID: <1064769476.35116.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200309281401.36103.andrew@grillet.co.uk> References: <200309281401.36103.andrew@grillet.co.uk>
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--=-B3WQoaAO/+dKW1ovUDt2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 09:01, Andrew Grillet wrote: > Hi >=20 > I have done a CVSup to fetch ports and stable over a fresh install of=20 > FreeBSD 4.8. >=20 > When building Gnome (2.4.0) I had problems with gstreamer requiring an=20 > old version of gnomeui. 2.00 instead of 2.4.=20 >=20 > I patched the makefile for gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins, to version=20 > 2.4.0 and it now gnome compiles OK (subject to having enough disk space=20 > :-) >=20 > BUT what I want to know is=20 >=20 > WHY IN GODS NAME DO I HAVE TO SPEND TWO DAYS COMPILING AUDIO STUFF FOR A=20 > MACHINE WITH NO SOUND HARDWARE?=20 >=20 > Surely the default should be that there is no sound support - who needs=20 > sound in a business environment? Or do people think it deters their=20 > employees surfing porn sites? >=20 > I think there is a more general problem here: Surely Gnome should not be=20 > dependent on things like mozilla - it should integrate them if they are=20 > present, but if they aren't. it should not fetch them and compile them=20 > - many of us use different applications, or have no need of an=20 > equivalent application on machines used for a specific purpose. It is=20 > annoying to find the Gui hauls in every application known to the=20 > developers. (If its any consellation - I have had the same moan at the=20 > KDE team several times :-) These are arguments you should take up with the GNOME development team.=20 GNOME puts out a desktop release with a set of components, and those are ported to FreeBSD. The majority of users want things like a browser, and multimedia tools. If you don't want all of those things, you might consider making your own GNOME 2 meta-port modeled after x11/gnome2 that just includes the components you want. Joe >=20 > regards >=20 > Andrew >=20 >=20 >=20 > regards >=20 > Andrew >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-B3WQoaAO/+dKW1ovUDt2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/dxfEb2iPiv4Uz4cRAl1lAJ9ApGygjt4NTpIyrW31hnzOpUWVpwCgqOCk 2fyHDhA7ip65CCCWyJdYP6A= =jlui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-B3WQoaAO/+dKW1ovUDt2--
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