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>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 09:01, Andrew Grillet wrote: > 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 :-) These are arguments you should take up with the GNOME development team. 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 > > regards > > Andrew > > > > regards > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/dxfEb2iPiv4Uz4cRAl1lAJ9ApGygjt4NTpIyrW31hnzOpUWVpwCgqOCk 2fyHDhA7ip65CCCWyJdYP6A= =jlui -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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