From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 2 10:45: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD5637B503; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com (C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.12.58.155]) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA84888; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:44:34 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e92HiB544564; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:44:11 -0700 From: Jeremy Lea To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Ade Lovett , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, "Vanilla I. Shu" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: USE_GTK and USE_GNOME Message-ID: <20001002104411.K30468@shale.csir.co.za> Mail-Followup-To: Jeremy Lea , Maxim Sobolev , Ade Lovett , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, "Vanilla I. Shu" References: <20001002012649.G30468@shale.csir.co.za> <39D86165.C21837F1@FreeBSD.org> <20001002102510.H15530@supernews.net> <39D8B9F6.C55F8257@FreeBSD.org> <20001002101657.J30468@shale.csir.co.za> <39D8C684.8A438F60@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39D8C684.8A438F60@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:31:48PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:31:48PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Nope. Gnome is a developed as a component software, so the programmer is free to choose > whether he wants to use full set of features provided by Gnome, or just a small set of it > (for example nice widgets provided by gnomelibs). Therefore, IMHO it is just plain wrong > to tell that any port that uses part of Gnome, no matter how small subset it is, requires > full-blown Gnome metaport to be installed. Well, after patching 300 and something ports, there are no ports (outside of the ones below gnome-core) there are only a few ports which might want to only use USE_GNOMELIBS, but that is because they only install a single binary. If they were to ever grow a .desktop file, then they would be back to needing the panel (for correct directory maintainance)... But the bottom line on this is - whatever changes I've not landed by this weekend are going to be removed from my tree, to become historical points of interest. So if you want to change the functionality, then please have tested patches to me by Wednesday or so. I've now been working on this for over a year, and each time I'm read to commit someone comes with other ideas, and no patches and grinds the entire process to a halt. Regards, -Jeremy -- FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message